Traditions Quotes

483 Traditions quotes by 408 unique authors

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions. — Ronald Reagan
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our… — George W. Bush
Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence… — Unknown Author
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. — Maya Lin
[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology. — Mark Twain
This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have… — Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham
You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave… — Ziauddin Yousafzai
It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source.… — King Hussein I
Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this… — Bernie Siegel
The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions. — Deepak Chopra
My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many… — Gerd R. Puin
...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. — Mohammed Arkoun
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are occasionally bad laws,… — Unknown Author
If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and meaning by the dreary dictates… — Michael Leunig
[W]hen the empirical investigator glories in his refusal to go beyond the specialized observation dictated by the traditions of his discipline, be they ever so… — Karl Mannheim
I think the important thing to learn is that we can retain a sentimental loyalty to the cultural and literary traditions of, say, Judaism, Anglicanism… — Richard Dawkins
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in… — Thomas Berry
Home Economics stands for the ideal home life for today unhampered by the traditions of the past and the utilization of all the resources of… — Ellen Swallow Richards
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a… — Milton Friedman
The best advice that I can give you is this: Church-traditions- especially when they do not run counter to the faith- are to be observed… — St. Jerome
Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it… — Saint John Chrysostom
It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church. — Peter Canisius
We are here speaking in open disapproval of that false system of philosophy, not so long ago introduced, by which, because of an extended and… — Pope Gregory XVI

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