Browsing Topic Best Tradition Quotes

A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.

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.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

The denial of this sacred right [to vote] is a tragic betrayal of the highest mandates of our democratic tradition.

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely… call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

I am a Libertarian. I want to be known as a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the early James Madison – father of the Constitution. Labels change and perhaps in the old tradition I would be considered one of the original Whigs. The new title I would wear today is that of Conservative, though in its original connotation the term Liberal fits me better than the original meaning of the word Conservative.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I’ve practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

I think parenting is one of the most important jobs, because you can hit two or three generations with the values in your house and the traditions you establish. But I don’t think I’m very good at it, and I don’t know anybody who thinks they’re very good at it. Probably almost everyone gets an A in grandparenting, but in parenting, if you get a B- you’re doing pretty good.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

As far as inspiration goes, I’m constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I’m into those things.

If you look throughout human history … the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

There’s a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn’t something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they’ve never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.

The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.

We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.

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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.

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

Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

I know there’s some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.