Quotes About Tradition

and there are even cases of religiously inspired human sacrifice.

Whereas theism justified traditional agriculture in the name of God, humanism has justified modern industrial farming in the name of Man.

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.

S? nu ui?i, Darie. Nimic s? nu ui?i. S? spui copiilor t?i. ?i copiilor pe care-i vor avea copiii t?i s? le spui... Auzi, Darie? S? nu ui?i... S? nu ui?i, Darie...

We must remind] those who are too quick to engage in critiques of Eurocentrism that the very conceptual tools they use are part of (what these same critics identify as) the European philosophical tradition, evidence precisely of these tools' subversive universality.

My mother's blueberry pie from scratch was amazing. I still make it today.

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

Zeena Schreck believes that the right-hand path and the left-hand path have traditionally had the same end goal; it is only the method that is different and the fact that adepts on the lefthand path seek liberation in this life. --About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004

I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.

Christmas was always the worst… What's the point of Christmas without any kids to share it with?

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of "the proper channels," a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.

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.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.

Similarly, in Britain, the future bride of a fisherman began knitting this special sweater as soon as she was engaged—and not a moment before.

When you tell the children tales of the Baba Yaga on a cold winter's night, you might remember to mention that whether or not the witch is wicked often depends on who is telling the story.

a way of eating that merges fresh food with ancient food wisdom and the latest science.

For millennia, Native Americans have had a relationship with the land that encompasses respect and appreciation for all it provides.

You are history

British literary landscape,

We were raised on lentils, brown rice, Neil Young, and solstice celebrations.

it is on the ninth day after death that the soul is said to leave the body. On the fortieth day, it departs this world. Between these two points lies a blank space that the Church does not account for, but peasants will tell you that the soul returns home and takes up residence behind the stove.

I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.