Conventions Quotations

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

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year.

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

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.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

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

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

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

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.

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.

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

Society's the mother of convention.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

Convention was our safeguard: could one have stronger?

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

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

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

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

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.

All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better.

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.

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

You don't have to follow anybody's conventions.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Successful innovations become conventions.

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

Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of. It would defy every norm that is America.

One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past.

We only have one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

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

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

Convention, so often a mask for injustice ...

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.

Pat Robertson at a national convention, equipped with delegates, certainly remains a terrible sight. He is a charlatan of Chaucerian dimensions.

Convention is the ruler of all.

Plot is a literary convention. Story is a force of nature.

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.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

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

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

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

One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as the mailbox.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

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.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

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

Every day you meet a delegation going to some convention to try and change the way of somebody else's life.