Tradition Quotes · Page 20

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them…

— Moses Finley

I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.

— Mark Shields

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but…

— John Ashcroft

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

— Philip Pullman

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

— Jasper Fforde

It's a tradition in our family that the girls all be given crazy names, usually picked out of Gothic novels.

— Conchata Ferrell

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Russia, we have a long tradition of compassion for people who have been put into labor camps or prison.

— Lyudmila Alexeyeva

Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

— David J. Schwartz

Over the years, Good Deeds Day has annually gained greater popularity, spreading beyond geographical boundaries to include many more countries worldwide. International…

— Shari Arison

After all, that's why we read historical fiction-to be transported to another time, and to be astonished at ancient people's lives and…

— Michelle Moran

What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three…

— Amin Maalouf

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as…

— Ram Nath Kovind

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and…

— Ludwig von Mises

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

— F. R. Leavis

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Because we need Christmas we had better understand what it is and what it isn't. Gifts, holly, mistletoe, and red-nosed reindeer are…

— Hugh W. Pinnock

Accepting Turkey as a member of the European club means that the club is open to outsiders, to Muslims, to poorer people,…

— Andrew Mango

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it,…

— Claude Debussy

The cumulative effect of the Romantic theory of creativity, as played out in the context of belief in the virtue of the…

— John Walford

European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself…

— James A. Baldwin

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of…

— Terence McKenna

Build traditions in your families that will bring you together, for they can demonstrate your devotion, love, and support for one another.…

— L. Tom Perry

What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious…

— Joseph Goebbels

As an outsider, when you think of Indiana, you think about a place that not only has championships but a championship tradition.

— Kelvin Sampson

There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know.

— Roy Barnes

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

— C.D. Wright

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

— Larry Hurtado

Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

— Jeff Fortenberry

We are our culture and tradition; if there is no culture or tradition we are no one.

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

— Allan Bloom

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

— Henry James

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

— Alex Gibney

Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free…

— Edward Snowden

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone.

— Dalai Lama

“Traditions never die” ... They sometimes get a back- seat for convenience, and bloom back at right moment...”

— Anvita Bajpai

There ought to be three traditions in the art of humanity: the realistic, the visionary and the wild.

— Ben Okri

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

— Barack Obama

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

— Nicholas Culpeper