Conventions Quotations | Page 2

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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