Culture Quote by Woody Allen

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”

— Woody Allen

Tradition is laziness.

— Gustav Mahler

We may think that our tradition is exactly the same as it has always been, but that is an illusion.

— Oliver D. Crisp

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

— Glenn Gould

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

— Hassan Fathy

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

— Walter Lippmann

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

— Maxine Kumin

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

— James Russell Lowell

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

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

Tradition is a very powerful force.

— John P. Kotter