Tradition Quotes - Page 7

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.

The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

Art has arrived at the paradox that tradition itself requires the occurrence of radical attacks on tradition.

Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.

I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

Betterment of conditions the world over is not essentially dependent on scientific knowledge but on the fulfillment of human traditions and ideals.

Traditional wisdom is long on tradition and short on wisdom.

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

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.