Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the… — Avery Dulles Copy Share Image
There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that. — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
The philanthropic tradition is older than democracy, older than Christianity, and older than higher education. It gives form and purpose to personal… — Robert L. Payton Copy Share Image
Look at the great tradition of Western political philosophy. Those people were all immersed in revolutionary movements. Most weren't career academics -… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like… — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
It's always a problem, getting the curtain in at the end of the first act; having enough of a resolve so that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art. — Eleanora Duse Copy Share Image
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with tradition and history. It is evocative of seasonal changes,… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
The odd thing about tradition is, the longer it's been going, the more people seem to take it seriously - as though… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
You don't hear about tradition in the NFL, but we have a tradition in Baltimore. It was just an awesome place to… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image