#2,949

Where the law is not customary law, it is easily turned into a mere political weapon.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,924

The majority of properly modern customs would be crimes in an authentically civilized society.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,922

The fool, seeing that customs change, says that morality varies.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 467

#2,855

The majority of new customs are old behaviors that western civilization had shamefacedly confined to its lower-class neighborhoods.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 457

#2,761

One can only speak of the sovereignty of the law where the legislator’s function is reduced to consulting the consensus of custom in the light of ethics.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 443

#2,359

Where the customs and the laws permit everyone to aspire to everything, everyone lives a frustrated life, no matter what position he comes to occupy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 382

#1,412

The increasing freedom of customs in modern society has not suppressed domestic conflicts.
It has only taken away their dignity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 240

#1,337

The rapid evolution of a society destroys its customs.
And imposes on the individual, in place of the silent education of traditions, the reins and the whip of laws.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 230

#1,184

Opinions, customs, institutions, cities—everything has become vulgar, since we gave up repairing the old in order to buy every day some gaudy novelty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 208

#681

It is enough at times that a society suppress a custom it assumes is absurd for a sudden catastrophe to show it its error.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 125

#672

There are two symmetrical forms of barbarism: peoples who have nothing but customs and peoples who respect nothing but laws.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 123

#433

The “rational,” the “natural,” the “legitimate,” are nothing more than what is customary.
To live under a political constitution that endures, among customs that endure, is the only thing that allows us to believe in the legitimacy of the ruler, in the rationality of habits, and in the naturalness of things.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 87

#383

To reform society by means of laws is the dream of the incautious citizen and the discrete preamble to every tyranny.
Law is the juridical form of custom or the trampling of liberty.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 79