Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul. – Robert Ingersoll, Individuality

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. – Raymond E. Feist

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. – Mark Twain, 1907, letter to Harriet E. Whitmore

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. – George Bernard Shaw