Tradition Quotes

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Have a place for everything and keep the things somewheres else. That is not advice it is merely cu...

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a...

The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice...

In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house wher...

These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but...

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should...

Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the ...

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.

Decadence, decadence, he said to himself. They’ve lost everything and gained nothing. The French had...

Stenham had always taken it for granted that the dichotomy of belief and behavior was the cornerston...

The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say...

What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inc...

The gnarled fidelity of an old habit.

Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this o...

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning ...

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world,...

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do ...

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source ...

Habit is a great deadener.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequ...

It’s an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid,” said Locke....

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continui...

What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the ...

I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in...

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are ...

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering ...

Our second danger is to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile ...

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is...

What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Ma...

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregar...

It's political, sir. Apparently he wants a return to the values and traditions that made the city gr...

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the clever...

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pa...

The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England...

If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with...

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

What emerges from these separate strands of (modern) history is an image of man himself that bears a...

Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more mi...

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead...

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it...

I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're look...

And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant...

The individuals inside are frequently fighting that their individual voices be heard, while the wall...

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and phi...

A precedent embalms a principle.

Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, peo...

I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be...

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but ...

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition ...

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

There is something about saying, ‘We always do this,’ which helps keep the years together. Time is s...

Custom reconciles us to everything.

If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil fo...

But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comfor...

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation w...

It (modernization) is just another jungle closing in.

In order that there may be institutions, there must be a kind of will, instinct, or imperative, whic...

There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims ...

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

Habit is stronger than reason.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more sim...

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Touching your cap to the squire may be damn bad for the squire, but it's damn good for you.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard...

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.

He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to...

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is...

By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death...

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'd...

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is...

This kind of renunciation, in fact, has often been the strength, born of necessity, of the world's d...

...when I left her to-day, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wing...

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is ...