Conventional Systems

Famous quotes containing the words conventional and/or systems:

“It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)

“We have done scant justice to the reasonableness of cannibalism. There are in fact so many and such excellent motives possible to it that mankind has never been able to fit all of them into one universal scheme, and has accordingly contrived various diverse and contradictory systems the better to display its virtues.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)