Tradition Quotes

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

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if you know how to do it, is immediate.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.

In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

Give us something else; give us something new; for Heaven's sake give us something bad, so long as we feel we are alive and active and not just passive admirers of tradition!

Habit is a great deadener.

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.

... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.

The Moon Pie is a bedrock of the country store and rural tradition. It is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

Amazing tradition. They throw a great party for you on the one day they know you can't come.

I felt there's a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I'd be a jerk not to take advantage of it.

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

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

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing