« All Tradition Quotes · Gilbert K. Chesterton's Page
Tradition Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to…
- The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing…
- It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds…
- (Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
- Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that…
More Tradition Quotes
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this… — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- 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
- The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors. — Amy Adams
- Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism… — Jan Peter Balkenende
- Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. — Daniel Barenboim
- In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best,… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun