Tradition Quotes

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

The US Constitution serves the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.

The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances.

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

It is well to lie fallow for a while.

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

One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

The tradition of freedom of the high seas has its roots in an era when there were too few people to seriously violate the oceans - but in hindsight that era ended some 150 years ago.

You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors.

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Anonymous sources are a practice of American journalism in the 20th and 21st century, a relatively recent practice. The literary tradition of anonymity goes back to the Bible.

I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.

Assimilate all you can from tradition and then say things in your own way.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones

When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

We know something of the history of the spread of Christianity, but much passed from recorded memory and much was transmitted by tradition whose accuracy has been repeatedly questioned.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it's extra special to be a part of that.

God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.

Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

The yoga tradition provides one of humankind's most effective systems for achieving enrichment and happiness in every aspect of life.