mores

• “Romans used generally, for this idea, the term mores, and hence Cicero and”

  Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.

• “Yet Selig, after doling out World Series rings to the Chicago White Sox Tuesday, said: It's important for somebody who understands what I call the mores of culture of this sport as well as he does.”

  Forbes: Selig Defends Choosing Disney's Mitchell For Probe

• “I am going to read you a little passage which I think you may value because it puts the whole thing in a nutshell; but before I read it I would just say that Bernard Shaw always uses the words "moral" and "immoral" in the classic sense (the Latin word mores meaning customs if I remember right) instead of in the limited vulgar sense, by which we mean that a moral man is merely a man who does not run off with somebody else's wife, and an immoral man is a man who does.”

  Bernard Shaw and the Empire

• “Dionisio said the event, which includes a hayride and fires to make s'mores, is the group's biggest fundraiser.”

  The Washington Post: Dueling 'Field of Screams' Halloween venues pit Md. nonprofit against Pa. group

• “Michael's ignorance of social mores is the essence of the show.”

  Is Michael Scott Ruining THE OFFICE? | the TV addict

• “Later philosophers, examining the principles of republicanism, argued that this sort of constraint by mores is desirable, because it holds behaviour in check more effectively.”

  I Was Drinking When I Wrote This | Her Bad Mother

• “If a strong master/apprentice tradition exists, for example, where you're expected to gain a master's consent to teach you, and to "recompense" them with a period of submission to their teachings, if that's what "paying your dues" entails, then disrespecting those mores is disrespecting those sources/influences/teachers by refusing to pay the expected entry fee.”

  The Sacred Domain

• “But my Church, using our institution's religious mores, is happy to perform a "marriage" ceremony for two people of the same gender.”

  Sound Politics: New Jersey Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage rights

• “This definitely mitigates the dictatorial quality that I find most ... expediently wrong-headed in the conflation of morality with ethics, that reassuring conviction that an ethos, like mores, is a set of constraints imposed on the individual (with the ethos simply being the constraints imposed by the individual on themself).”

  The Stain of Sin

• “The importance of mores is a universal trust to which study and experience continually bring us back.”

  Letters to the Editor

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