#convention

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#commitment #community #convention #crime #end

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

#american #american history #begin #constitution #conventions

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#among #comes #conventional #kind #literacy

We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#conformity #conventionality #creation #diversity #expansion

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#ceremonial #character #conventional #general #general character

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#bonds #bursting #convention #disruptive #either

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#benefits #convention #poor #tangible #world

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so. ↗

— Timothy White

#decade #every #i #i think #magazine

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#batting #because #conventional #conventional wisdom #lot