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The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions. -- Paul Signac
First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties. -- Michael Beschloss
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. -- Aldous Huxley
President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied. -- John Yoo
Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions. -- John Yoo
That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that have signed them. -- John Yoo
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. -- Carlos Fuentes
Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. -- John Yoo
It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib is governed by the Geneva Conventions, which have been signed by both the U.S. and Iraq. -- John Yoo
Conventions are often more cruel than the law. -- Honore de Balzac
The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists. -- Tom Stoppard
Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing. -- Will Rogers
Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation. -- Jane Byrne
Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. -- Freya Stark
Heather and I decided we were going to be pretty low-key at the convention. -- Mary Cheney
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? -- Chuck Schumer
One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. -- Brian Molko
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. -- John Yoo
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids. -- Andrew Vachss
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them. -- Brad Thor
Conventions which camouflage a man's true feelings are a spiritual lie which help him adapt himself to the organized deviations of society ... -- Maria Montessori
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. -- Otto Hahn
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field. -- Jane Haddam
Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control. -- Janis Karpinski
Conventions are, by nature, a party. I mean, that's why people become delegates. They come from all over the world to exercise their democratic rights and to party. -- Rob Lowe
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love. -- William Shatner
I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition. -- Otto Hahn
Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours. -- Don Hewitt
Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions. -- Michael Beschloss
You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions. -- Lev Grossman
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers. -- Ian Hart
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. -- Will Rogers
We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain. -- Mark Twain
Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice. -- Steven Pinker
I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions. -- Samantha Power
Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas corpus.' They are also denied the right to claim the Geneva Conventions confer certain rights on them. -- Noah Feldman
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. -- Aldous Huxley
Al Qaeda is not a nation-state and it has not signed the Geneva Conventions. It shows no desire to obey the laws of war; if anything it directly violates them by disguising themselves as civilians and attacking purely civilian targets to cause massive casualties. -- John Yoo
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome. -- Anne Perry
But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized. -- Yaroslav Trofimov
Study the great brush drawings of the Chinese and Japanese... When we try to imitate their conventions for perspective, form and texture we lose the content, because those artists were part of an ancient tradition. Our tradition changes rapidly, our schools of thought come to fruition quickly and decay again. We see differently. -- John French Sloan
Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. -- Bette Davis
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. -- Florence King
I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of. -- Mark Hamill
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. -- George Santayana
I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go. -- Aaron Douglas
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art. -- Takashi Murakami
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. -- August Strindberg
At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions. -- Meghan Trainor
I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. -- Xun Zi
While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. -- John Yoo
Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense. -- Vint Cerf
We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, not only in the case of Iraq. They must be tackled by the international community together, by strengthening conventions, treaties and agreements. -- Anna Lindh
It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. -- John H. Reagan
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular or idiomatic modification of musical conventions imported from Europe, beginning back during the time of the early settlers of the original colonies. -- Albert Murray
One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square. -- Marlo Thomas
When people visit me at autograph conventions and signings, they always say, 'You just don't know how you scared me!' These people are grown up. They say, 'When I was a kid, I just couldn't sleep at night.' Sometimes they will have babies with them. And they give me their babies, and they take pictures of me holding their baby. -- Betsy Palmer
Successful innovations become conventions. -- Mason Cooley
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. -- Eugene Delacroix
You don't have to follow anybody's conventions. -- James Frey
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage. -- Anton Chekhov
Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force. -- Thorstein Veblen
I've agreed to do several Star Trek conventions this coming year. -- Nichelle Nichols
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions. -- Julia Ward Howe
The subsistence level is only a conventional idea, and conventions change. -- Arthur Lewis
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. -- Robert Dallek
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art. -- Eleanora Duse
All conventions are very enjoyable. The more variety you do, the better. -- Jeremy Bulloch
I've done different conventions and had smaller roles in different sci-fi things. -- Brigid Brannagh
I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars. -- Daniel Logan
I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars.' -- Daniel Logan
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport. -- Bill Brandt
Journalistic conventions make it hard for reporters to deal with a big, complicated lie. -- Michael Kinsley
All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away. -- Sri Aurobindo
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines. -- Lev Grossman
Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything. -- Alan Watts
I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others. -- Carla Gugino
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful. -- A. Y. Jackson
But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people. -- H. G. Wells
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. -- Denis Diderot
Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you. -- Randolph Bourne
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
I break away from all conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. -- Barbara Bush
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this . . . -- Alice Duer Miller
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that. -- Chris Lilley
Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions. -- M.M. Kaye
Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema's conventions. -- Bryan Singer
German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements. -- Adolf Hitler
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. -- Ernest Cline
Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that. -- Adam Gopnik
It is always painful to set one's self against tradition, especially against the conventions & prejudices that hedge about womanhood. -- Helen Keller
The atheists traditionally hold their conventions from Good Friday to Easter Sunday during the hours Christ spent in the grave. -- Bill Murray
Sci-fi conventions are probably the most fun, the most out-of-the-box, entertaining week or weekend you've ever had in your life. -- Richard Hatch
Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are. -- George Santayana
If you eliminate the names of Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, Jackson and Wilson, both conventions would get out three days earlier. -- Will Rogers
Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river. -- Indira Gandhi
It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out. -- Dana Fox
I used to have a great fear of constitutional conventions. I have a great fear now of not having one. -- Tom Coburn
A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings. -- Ingvar Kamprad
I took part in two 'Leverage' conventions. Fans fly in from as far as Russia and Australia. It's expensive to attend. -- Gina Bellman
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses. -- Jonas Mekas
Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling. -- George R. R. Martin
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. -- David Mermin
I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope. -- Anthony Daniels
One usually understands the art of the past by applying the conventions of the present thus misunderstanding the art of the past. -- Sol LeWitt
From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business. -- Michael Beschloss
Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil") -- Julian Hawthorne
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. -- Myrtle Reed
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure. -- Francois Rabelais
Landing on 'Morning Joe' wasn't a fluke. I was a poli sci major in college. I interned at the CBS political unit, covered conventions. -- Willie Geist
I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side. -- Hayden Panettiere

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