Tradition Quotes
1555 quotes by 1200 authors
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
— Francis of Assisi
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort…
— Rowan Atkinson
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
— Chinua Achebe
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Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
— Michelle Bachelet
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
— Amy Adams
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Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment…
— Jan Peter Balkenende
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
— Daniel Barenboim
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In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
— Jacques Barzun
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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
— Scott Adams
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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in…
— Evan Bayh
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I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it…
— Glenn Beck
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Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
— Hans Bender
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The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for…
— Benazir Bhutto
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
— Bjork
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