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I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions…

— Alfred Stieglitz

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

— John Searle

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a…

— Albert Einstein

Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.

— Franz Marc

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

— Maxine Waters

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

— Elizabeth Berg

It is easy to hate at something you dont have,achieve or exprience

— Syntific

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the…

— Matthew Scully

Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that…

— Anonymous

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

— Chinua Achebe