{"quotes":[{"text":"The past informs the present.","author":"Fennel Hudson","tags":["customs","heritage","inherit","learn","past","present","tradition"],"id":5284,"author_id":"Fennel+Hudson"},{"text":"I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an accumulation of customs and myths directed toward proving something that isn't true.","author":"Andy Rooney","tags":["atheism","customs","falsehood","falsehoods","hoax","institutions","myth","myths","religion"],"id":6678,"author_id":"Andy+Rooney"},{"text":"Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them. From an anthropologist's view, 'justice' is a search for workable customs.","author":"Robert A. Heinlein","tags":["customs","justice","society"],"id":20486,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Heinlein"},{"text":"Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.","author":"Fennel Hudson","tags":["age","customs","heritage","old-fashioned","past","timeless"],"id":24071,"author_id":"Fennel+Hudson"},{"text":"The believer is not a slave to fa.","author":"Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips","tags":["custom","customs","fashion","tradition","traditions"],"id":26595,"author_id":"Abu+Ameenah+Bilal+Philips"},{"text":"But there are times,' said Charlotte, 'when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["customs","friendship","kindness"],"id":93373,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. I am entering into the truth, into nature.","author":"Paul Gauguin","tags":["conventions","customs","freedom","life","living","nature","society"],"id":102770,"author_id":"Paul+Gauguin"},{"text":"Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.","author":"Franz Rosenzweig","tags":["culture","customs","death","europe","language","law","life","race","white","whites"],"id":165509,"author_id":"Franz+Rosenzweig"},{"text":"Customs, morals--is there a difference?","author":"Robert A. Heinlein","tags":["customs","morals","society"],"id":191879,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Heinlein"},{"text":"Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["customs","morality"],"id":208299,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":24,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}