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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

I am not a creature of habit.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.

Habit is ten times nature.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.