quotations about tradition
Celebrating cultural traditions together can be one way to bridge the divide.
CHEMJOBBER
"How to break down cultural and language barriers in the lab", Chemical & Engineering News, May 15, 2017
A lot of churches and people are ripe with traditions that are not Biblically based. The traditions are taught like they are the Word of God when the reality is they are the fruit of people who may have truly thought they were good ideas.
CHRIS BLEVINS
"Tradition or not Tradition?", Williamson Daily News, May 5, 2017
The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
BRUCE LEE
Tao of Jeet Kune Do
To hide behind culture or tradition to justify anarchy is a gross insult to the very people whose culture or tradition may be paraded to glorify criminal conduct.
MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY
speech, July 15, 2005
Tradition is the glue that holds the whole mess together. It is the cornerstone of our free and democratic way of life. It is what allows disputes -- no matter how heated or personal -- to be resolved without violence. Absent a police state, tradition is the key to the survival of the rule of law. It keeps us closer to utopia than dystopia. Indeed, without respect for tradition, it is hard to imagine how either government or litigation as we know them would work.
IAN HOLLOWAY
"Tradition in form, change in substance", Canadian Lawyer Magazine, May 8, 2017
Tradition is comforting. It's solemn, steady and unwavering.
WILL PEEBLES
"Police, Savannah community gather to remember local officers lost in line of duty", Savannah Morning News, May 15, 2017
We have tradition that so we believe, because both we from our predecessors, and they from theirs, have so received.
RICHARD HOOKER
attributed, Day's Collacon
In Catholicism, Scripture and tradition are intrinsically interwoven. They have been described as "twin fonts of the one divine well-spring" (revelation), and cannot be separated, any more than can two wings of a bird, two sides of a coin, or two blades of a pair of scissors.
DAVE ARMSTRONG
"Tradition is Not a Dirty Word -- It's a Great Gift", National Catholic Register, April 24, 2017
Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.
LEMONY SNICKET
The Blank Book
I think we can learn that self-expression and respect for certain traditions are not mutually exclusive.
FRED PLOTKIN
"Of Dress Codes and Social Codes at the Opera", WQXR Radio, April 19, 2017
Age-old traditions are not passing trends but an assertion of identity in the face of disenfranchisement.
YOUSRA ELBAGIR
"Letter from Africa: Sudanese fight for their African identity", BBC News, April 18, 2017
Tradition is a brake on progress. We may praise the virtues of yesteryear and the benefits of relics and roots, but we also know the old has to give way, youth must be served, new ideas need room to develop. The past ought not to constrain the present.
DAVID LOWENTHAL
The Past is a Foreign Country Revisited
Our traditions are who we are.
PAUL L. VALLETTA
"CFD ceremony sees promotions, inductions and history", Cranston Herald, May 10, 2017
A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.
GEORGE ELIOT
Middlemarch
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
Think on These Things
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. LAWRENCE
letter to Ada Lawrence, April 9, 1911
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay. One must take the journey unburdened, sweetly, without any effort, never stopping at any shrine, at any monument, or for any hero, social or religious -- alone with beauty and love.
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
The Only Revolution
I think there's a paradox about tradition in a pluralist society like ours. In such a society, tradition is itself a matter of individual choice; there's no avoiding it. Tradition is just one available option among many for an individual to choose; in the end, each of us is free to choose tradition or to reject it; to choose it and then reject it; or to choose some aspects of it and not others.
MARK MOVSESIAN
"The Paradox Of Tradition In The Modern World", The American Conservative, May 16, 2017
The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
LETTY COTTIN POGREBIN
Deborah, Golda, and Me: Being Female and Jewish in America