Quotes About Tradition

Conservatives believe in unchosen obligations (pieties), whereas classical liberals think that the only source of obligation is choice.

The nearby Hopis danced and prayed for rain. His people did not. They sought to live with their environment rather than to control it.

The Peyoteway, he knew, was an even newer thing, learned from the Utes.

He pivoted on one buttock and broke wind. Dukhi leaned back to allow it free passage, wondering what penalty might adhere to the offence of interfering with the waft of brahminical flatus.

Narayan explained how they had spent the morning, and Dukhi laughed to hear it. the entire episode made Radha furious. Why must you torment the boy? There is no need to make my Om do such dirty work....How will he appreciate what he has if he does not learn what his forefathers did? Once a week he will come with me! Whether he likes it or not!

When a culture vansihes, humanity is the loser.

When a culture vanishes, humanity is the loser.

Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions are not absent from the amorous subject's life, whatever culture he belongs to.

The saint is first and foremost a being without formal context; the idea of fashion is antipathetic to the idea of sainthood.

He was also wary of upsetting the existing social hierarchy.

that favored stability over innovation, predictability over experimentation

I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest. As

Drevni Goti u Germaniji [...] - ima?ahu jedan mudar zajedni?ki obi?aj, naime, da o svakoj važnijoj stvari koja se ticala zajednice raspravljaju dvaput; i to - jednom kad su pijani, a drugi put u treznom stanju;- Pijani - da im savetovanje ne bude lišeno snage i odvažnosti;- atrezni - da ne bude lišeno razboritosti i opreznosti.

The crown prince laughed. "But this is the flu!" he said. "We have the flu every year! We all get the flu, even the royal family!

Mon père ne m'a pas appris la langue des femmes de son peuple.

It was a family-style

Westwood had quoted from his recent research and said old-style wheat grew about four feet tall, but it was being bred down to a brawnier plant with more seeds, just two feet high. In which case the local farmers were still old-style. The wheat was easily four feet tall.

breaches of Sharia law, some involving domesticated animals.

Dutiful mapmakers drew lines and wrote India or Pakistan or Afghanistan, and the Pashtun smiled politely and went about their eternal business.

Strong cultures are vigorously and widely supported, and they are difficult to change.

We're Western individualists who like technological and sociological change," I observed. "Traditions don't mean as much to us.

Even as we sat, prying lids off milk bottles, we could hear the persecuted cooks banging around back in the kitchen, grandmas barking at each other, preparing the daily grotesque.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Generally speaking, in pre-modern times you had an idealistic tradition, which was political, and a hedonisic tradition, which was non-political. Now in the 17th century a merger of these two traditions takes place, a political hedonism. And that is one of the greatest changes which has ever happened, and of course up to the present day this determines, with many modifications, that would lead us too far.