Islam explicitly rejects dictatorship and there are no traditions of the Prophet or passages in the Qur'an which clearly give dictators this… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
My dad doesn't like religion much, but I grew up very close to the Baptist tradition. God isn't this distant thing. God… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
I'm talking about just as an ongoing, everyday matter of daily life, one of the most destructive things if not the most… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in… — Phill Jupitus Copy Share Image
Guajira, colombiana, milonga, rumba - all these styles are flamenco. They're part of the musical tradition in my country, and they are… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Our tradition in this country has not been to deny health information to interested individuals when they claim that they can handle… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We built our fashion around three fundamental concepts: Sicily, tailoring, and tradition. Our dream is to create a style which is timeless,… — Domenico Dolce Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Of all intellectual friendships, none are so beautiful as those which subsist between old and ripe men and their younger brethren in… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and… — Gianni Vattimo Copy Share Image
We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner,… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
I think there's this tradition of a culture of NDAs that has spanned all the way back to the '70s and '80s… — Jason Schreier Copy Share Image
In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
At a certain point in his life, when he reaches a level of stature, a man commissions his portrait to go over… — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of taking old songs and completely turning them on their head. Having no adherence to the… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
Every time I've gone in to create music and felt free and felt like I was actually creating something, it's turned out… — Walker Hayes Copy Share Image
To say that the Afro American created jazz doesn't mean anything bad about Anglo Americans, and I always teach my younger jazz… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“1. Thou shalt respect Scotland's history but not become a pastiche. Tradition is a dish best served fresh, so instead of perpetuating… — Gabriella Bennett Copy Share Image
“Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be… — Bill Laswell Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful tradition of jazz people getting on stage and jamming and finding some feeling for music with audiences who may… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
