Quotes About Tradition

Robert's Rules of Order becomes the guiding text rather than the pattern of the apostolic church.

Domestic Eroticism is wrapped in a veil of appropriateness

The extended family, the community, and religion may indeed have limited our freedom, sexual and otherwise, but in return they offered us a much-needed sense of belonging. For generations, these traditional institutions provided order, meaning, continuity, and social support. Dismantling them has left us with more choices and fewer restrictions than ever. We are freer, but also more alone. As Giddens describes it, we have become ontologically more anxious.

Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity.

Adultery has existed since marriage was invented, and so too has the taboo against it. It has been legislated, debated, politicized, and demonized throughout history.

My Best Bread, written out twenty or thirty years ago in her mother's strict, pointed hand, giving everything but the steps of the procedure. (A cook is not exactly a fool.)

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Il y a une chose que je ne comprends pas. Pourquoi à la rubrique de l'état civil, dans le journal, donne-t-on toujours l'âge des personnes décédées et jamais celui des nouveaux-né? C'est un non-sens.

Using a well-worn metaphor, culture can be viewed as the software that runs the hardware of human society.

It was all the same every year. And that's how I liked it. I never wanted it to be different, not even a little bit. It's funny. When you're young, you always want things to change. You want to grow up. You want to go to new places, do new things. But in the end, it's the things like Christmas, the things that are always the same, that you love the most.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

Durante a sua permanência no Mali, voltou a ser ofendido. (Os árabes parecem ter considerado os costumes africanos tão grosseiros como os veriam os exploradores europeus, alguns séculos mais tarde.) Ibn Battuta esperava que os presentes de receção fossem belas vestes e dinheiro; em lugar disso, porém, foi presenteado pelo novo rei com três pães e uma porção de carne de vaca frita, bem como algum iogurte.

We stand not on the shoulders of giants, but on the shoulders of our grandparents and of our great-great-great-grandparents too.

It's like the old stories

Eighth Earl of Spencer

Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that being called this thing, with the weight of tradition behind it, and with the association of the Royal family, does allow you to have conversations and to open doors, and wallets, for the good of poetry in a way that nothing else would allow.

If people wish to love a 7th century preacher more than their own families, that's up to them, but nobody else is obliged to take it seriously.

The monarchy continued this tradition, and it migrated to America as soon as there was profit to be had.

Slavery was a tradition embedded in the culture of the South and played a key economic role there. Its economic importance was the key factor impending abolition. Nevertheless, slavery is morally reprehensible, and completely indefensible, and the fact that many Americans, including the Founding Fathers, recognized that it was wrong, in a way makes us even more responsible for the crimes committed against the African-American race.

To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical requires their inclusion.

Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future.

Don't like fish. They eat drowned sailors – don't seem right to eat them in return.

And that survey is the one we all go back to. When you find one of their original corners, it is like a handshake with the past.

One person believes in sprites and visits the sacred grove, and another believes in Jesus and goes to the church. It's just a matter of fashion. There's no use in getting involved with just one god; they're more like brooches or pearls, just for decoration. For hanging around your neck, or for playing with.