Tradition Quotes · Page 25

My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least…

— Murray Bookchin

The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western…

— Bernard Lewis

I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands…

— Dalai Lama

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce,…

— Robert Klein

Contrary to the myth that the U.K. respects decisions of the Strasbourg court but many other adherent states do not, the convention…

— Dominic Grieve

There's a great tradition at the BFI of giving fellowships and I thought one of the great jobs that I'd have at…

— Anthony Minghella

Dance today is clearly in an unsettled state. Old forms and traditions are being given up. New ones are arising to take…

— Margaret H'Doubler

The Sons of the Harpy are basically the people who represent the old regime. They don't want Daenerys in there governing them.…

— Ian McElhinney

A crowd, whether it be a dangerous mob, or an amiably joyous gathering at a picnic is not a community. It has…

— Josiah Royce

Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a…

— Spiro T. Agnew

There are constraints on what counts as "Reformed." It's more than a name or a label. It's about belonging to a particular…

— Oliver D. Crisp

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

— Timothy Keller

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers

It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what…

— Christopher Hitchens

Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the…

— John Smith

The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the…

— John Shelby Spong

Major Trends [is] the canonical modern work on the nature and history of Jewish mysticism. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of…

— Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi

A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is…

— Edward Sapir

I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up…

— Quentin S. Crisp

The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not…

— Raul Garcia

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.

— Julian Bream

No, traditions and norms aren't rules in the Constitution. There's a difference between a tradition and a law.

— Rick Santelli

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest…

— Thomas Huxley

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“I'm convinced that the best solutions are often the ones that are counterintuitive - that challenge conventional thinking - and end in…

— Nathaniel J. Wyeth