Conventions Quotes

I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.

I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.

All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

What is called "objectivity," scientific for instance (in which I firmly believe, in a given situation) imposes itself only within a context which is extremely vast, old, firmly established, or rooted in a network of conventions ... and yet which still remains a context.

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.

The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial.

I have more folds than an origami convention.

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

Bruce Reid is not the worst batsman there is at international level but those who are worse would not need to hire the Myer Music Bowl to hold a convention.

It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.