Quotes About Tradition

You may think I'm brave. But in the eyes of many people back in my country I am a coward. They think, this man gave so much freedom to his daughter, he broke all the traditions of our society.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

Russia's joy's in the bottle!

Australian Aborigines slept with their dogs for warmth on cold nights, the coldest being a "three dog night." —WIKIPEDIA

What India expected of its artists was craft skill, not creativity; conformity to tradition, not originality

The Sabbath is the day on which we learn the art of surpassing civilization.

In Jewish tradition, dying in one's sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Modern

The Sabbath is holiness in time.

The best prophet of the future is our past.

These three ways correspond in our tradition to the main aspects of religious existence: worship, learning, and action. The three are one, and we must go all three ways to reach the one destination. For this is what Israel discovered: the God of nature is the God of history, and the way to know Him is to do His will. To

Two sources of religious thinking are given us: memory (tradition) and personal insight. We must rely on our memory and we must strive for fresh insight.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

The real national dish of the French right now-the cheap available food-is couscous. But North African cooking remains segregated in couscous parlours and has not been brought into the main current. A fossilised metropolitan tradition, yet what took its place was a sentimental nationalism.

Its monarch, the ManiKongo, was chosen by an assembly of clan leaders. Like his European counterparts, he

We know from a later scrap of oral tradition that Europeans were often believed to have hoofs; not having seen shoes before, some Africans along the river thought them part of white anatomy.

In every one of the villages