Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a long tradition in Western thought that humans are not shackled by biology, whereas animals are pure instinct machines. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“Every generation is inculcated in traditions of prejudice which are encouraged as normal, natural and healthy.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Discrimination is discrimination, even when people claim it's 'tradition.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are… — Alexander Bickel Copy Share Image
The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in… — Stanley Elkin Copy Share Image
In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest… But, in its less rigorous, popular… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I love the idea of carrying on some kind of tradition using some of the artifacts from people that touched my life.… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
It is not your right—based on YOUR traditions, YOUR customs and YOUR habits—to deny animals THEIR freedom so you can harm them,… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Songwriters I've always been drawn to are people who deal with something of depth in the lyric writing. ...I've always been influenced… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
At AFI, you make three cycle films your first year, and then you make a thesis film your second year, and I… — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Folk singers are the unsung heroes. They keep our tradition and culture alive but don't expect anything in return. — Devi Sri Prasad Copy Share Image
Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have such a personal life history with R&B - it's the first music I remember hearing, and it feels like a… — Giveon Copy Share Image
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel. — Colin MacInnes Copy Share Image
Forming an alliance is not the tradition of the AAP and we will not fight elections in collaboration with any political party… — Gurpreet Ghuggi Copy Share Image
I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others. — John Searle Copy Share Image
I call myself a traditionalist, although I have fought against tradition all my life. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets. — Stewart D. Friedman Copy Share Image
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself. — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
I went to a boarding school with a strong Maori tradition, where we were taught all about the haka. — Jonah Lomu Copy Share Image
Unfortunately (or fortunately), this world is all about being good on records. — Mohit Sharma Copy Share Image
