Tradition Quotes · Page 14

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

— Karl Marx

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

— Robert Crumb

Outsiders have the intuitive ability to continually view problems in fresh ways and to identify ineffective practices and traditions.

— John P. Kotter

Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict. Indeed when a tradition becomes Burkean, it is always dying or dead.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value.

— Anonymous

Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.

— Donald L. Hallstrom

India has a long tradition of giving that cuts across all sections of society. It is a living legacy that we can…

— Rohini Nilekani

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

— Amit Goswami

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We…

— Crazy Horse

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I grew up in a Jewish family, and we have raised our children in a Jewish tradition. Religion gives a framework for…

— Michael Sandel

It's just an American tradition to make sure people don't leave hungry. The worst thing is to have them say, 'Great dinner,…

— Tom Douglas

I'm more often confronted by women who come from religious traditions and don't feel that they have a place in the feminist…

— Gloria Steinem

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean,…

— Daryl Hall

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public…

— Brad Holland

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as…

— Robert Delaunay

If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I…

— Paul L. Maier

I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person…

— Amy Hempel

If you can imagine the story of the world as a giant movie, to not have some understanding of the Bible -…

— Steve Green

In the end, you do need institutions to transmit the faith for the long haul. That's why I make the case that,…

— Ross Douthat

Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities…

— Malidoma Patrice Some

We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact,…

— J. I. Packer

Honor Yourself is more than just food for the soul-it is true healing for the heart. Patricia Spadaro provides an honest approach…

— Ann Louise Gittleman

I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is…

— Wynton Marsalis

Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Peace-phobia is the outcome of nationalism and religion; while homophobia is the outcome of traditions and religion.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

— Preston Manning

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

England's full of cricket tradition. I follow the game there hugely.

— Mickey Arthur

“Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ”

— Barbara Tober

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

— Michel de Montaigne

According to the Dominant Western tradition, the natural world exists for the benefit of human beings.

— Peter Singer

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

— Terence McKenna

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across…

— Richard Lamm

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

— Edith Wharton

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

— Harold Rosenberg

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to…

— Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

When we were first creating the look of 'Kung Fu Panda,' we wanted to pay tribute to the beautiful tradition and culture…

— Jennifer Yuh Nelson

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

— William F. Albright

India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial.

— Mahatma Gandhi