Tradition Quotes & Sayings

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~ There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. ~

Bill McKibben

~ The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ~

Ruth Benedict

~ Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ~

Lewis Mumford

~ “Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.” ~

Stuart Chase

~ It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift. ~

Karl A. Menninger

~ All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ~

Dalai Lama

~ It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights - even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. ~

William Butler Yeats

~ Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. ~

Arthur M. Schlesinger

~ A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril ~

Winston Churchill

~ Tradition is the illusion of permanence. ~

Woody Allen

~ A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. ~

T.S. Eliot

~ Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking ~

Grace McGarvie

~ It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. ~

Henry James

~ Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ~

Winston Churchill

~ The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ~

John Acton

~ My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. ~

Maya Lin

~ Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. ~

Gustav Heinemann

~ The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations. ~

Albert Einstein

~ Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking ~

Grace McGarvie

~ This is indeed the traditional way in which witchcraft was spread and preserved, the children of witch families were taught by their parents. ~

Gerald Gardner

~ Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film. ~

Norman Jewison

~ The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland. ~

Christian Lous Lange

~ There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. ~

Bill McKibben

~ Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. ~

William Somerset Maugham

~ It is crucial that businesses and consumers apply the same prudence when making online transactions as they have when they make traditional commercial transactions. ~

Pottengal Mukundan

~ American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. ~

Todd Gitlin

~ The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow it. ~

Daniel J. Boorstin

~ It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline. ~

Kamisese Mara

~ The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected. ~

Carol Moseley Braun

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