It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time. Barbara Bush
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
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining. David Mermin
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order. Florence King
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. George Santayana