Quotes About Tradition

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

If you struck your mother or your father, it was punishable by death because you struck at the whole society. You struck at the morality of the society itself. This is what we have lost.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

There ain't no grammatical errors in a non-literate society.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.

If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.