Mill is quick to acknowledge the "magical influence of custom" on our thought, and the way in which local beliefs and practices inevitably appear to us to be "self-evident and self-justifying," but he does not see this as a reason to lapse into skepticism.
This process culminated during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) withethe campaign to "Destroy the Four Olds": old thought, culture, customs and habits.
He was an iconoclast, challenging established thought and custom in a fashion which makes him eminently readable today but which scarcely contributed to his academic earning power at the time.
Even in a modern, secular, liberal state that is explicitly committed to individual freedom, women's fundamental liberties can be obscured and mystified by language and action that uphold and impose longstanding restrictive modes of thought and custom that may not always be recognized as religious in origin but that have no other real explanation.
Let go of self-destructive thoughts or customs.
"They want to put in additional border patrol agents, I.N.S. agents and customs agents without giving any thought to what happens to a case when it's generated".
Don't be soothed by the thought that a customs union would be better than the prime minister's hard red lines.
Matthews-Juarez and Weinberg [ 62] define culture as the integration of patterns of human behavior that includes language, thoughts, communications, behaviors, customs, mores, beliefs, values, and institutions of different racial/ethnic or social groups.
Louie Garcia, a deputy special immigration and customs agent involved with the sweeps, echoed that thought in an interview with The Associated Press.
