Quotes with tradition

  • A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
  • Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
  • To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a ''mummified'' form.
  • Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters.
  • At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
  • The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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  • Henry David Thoreau This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • B. F. Skinner A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Stephen Bayley ''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Carlos Fuentes A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934) There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered ;about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Allan Bloom As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Adolf Loos At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Bernice Weissbourd Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Bono Can you imagine your second album — the difficult second album — it's about God? Everyone is tearing their hair out and Chris Blackwell says, It's okay. There's Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye, Bob Dylan, it's a tradition. We can get through it.
    Source: About the album October (album) (1981) in a speech accepting induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (17 March 2005).
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Camilla Lackberg Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men in the German and British academic tradition.
    Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Brad Holland Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Barton Seaver Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Anne Campbell I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • James A. Michener I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
    James A. Michener
    American writer (1907 - 1997)
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  • Margaret Drabble I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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