Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

About This Quote

In the quotation above, the writer is saying that custom and fashion will drive people to do anything. In other words, if everyone does it, it must be OK.

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More Quotes By George Bernard Shaw

1. There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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2. What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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3. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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5. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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