Education proceeds ultimately from the patterns furnished by institutions, customs, and laws.
Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law.
When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.
Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.
