For a lot of people the tradition is an end in itself, for…

You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We…

— David Longstreth

Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke…

— Richard Rohr

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is…

— Zadie Smith

There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

People see 'tradition' as something stultifying, old, and rigid, nothing that has meaning or application for us today. But families shouldn't have to follow…

— Elizabeth Berg

Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Orthodox churches, autocracy and national traditions are supposed to form a new national ideology in Russia. This would mean that Russia would be overtaken…

— Vladimir Sorokin

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is…

— Learned Hand

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…

— Edward Abbey

I think that voodoo as a spiritual tradition has been demonized for so long in popular culture. I wanted to write against that and…

— Jesmyn Ward

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

— Michael Moriarty

“Sacred Tradition predates and precedes Sacred Scripture, but both come from the same source: God.”

— Consumer Dummies

Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply…

— Pierre Trudeau

I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and…

— Nathan Oliveira

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African…

— Jesmyn Ward