Best 530 quotes in «tradition quotes» category

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

Almost every venerable tradition at a men's club starts out as a joke.

Americans, Poles, and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty. We must work together to confront forces, whether they come from inside or out, from the South or the East, that threaten over time to undermine the values and to erase the bonds of culture, faith and tradition that make us who we are.

Although contemporary advertising is relatively young, it already has a considerable tradition. Each new ad is encountered against a background of thousands of earlier ads.

A lot of the commercial expression of hip-hop leaves a lot to be desired - but then, there's a lot of whack gospel music, but I'm not leading a crusade against it. Of course, the vices of hip-hop are far more influential, I understand. But the good that hip-hop transmits, the power of the culture to rally the best of our protest, and uplift, and resistance, traditions, is often unfairly overlooked.

An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony.

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders.

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

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

A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

As for the status of Western Christianity, we are in a place where our task is to redefine the primary symbols of our faith or tradition in a more human direction. That's the thing I spend my time doing.

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

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

Authors we are in danger of accepting as gospel, whereas founders of discursivity provide permeable ideas that we can elaborate upon in a tradition of constructive dialogue.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.

By instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

Both Jewish and Roman sources and traditions admit an empty tomb.

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.

Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

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.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

Connection exists. There is immanence and transcendence, and everything beyond and in between. My tradition calls this connection God Herself.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

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.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.