Quotes About Tradition

Feminism has two sides: Along with the struggle against oppression, it's also always been about taking female experiences seriously. After all, women haven't been twiddling their thumbs for the last ten thousand years; they have been raising the entire population of the earth. And the insights they have attained from that are just as valuable as the tradition of mostly solitary male philosophers and theologians.

For tradition also and always means inhibition.

To be free of customs: "Custom clouds the true face of things".

traditie betekent ook altijd een remmende factor.

Die Familie der Mutter ist international, bei Familientreffen wird Italienisch, Französisch, Deutsch oder Englisch gesprochen. Die jüdische Herkunft spielt dabei keine Rolle, niemand im familiären Umfeld praktiziert die Religion.

Mendel, de Jakob Mendel, Mendel el de los libros.

typical of the so-called "good Jewish bourgeoisie," which gave such marked value to Viennese culture, and which was requited by being completely uprooted

Was it not intelligible that the new generation lost every trace of respect? It doubted parents, politicians, teachers; every decree, every proclamation of the State was read with a dubious eye. The post-war generation emancipated itself with a violent wrench from the established order and revolted against every tradition, determined to mold its own fate, to abandon bygones and to soar into the future.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

the Starkadders rarely did what was obvious though they were only too embarrassingly ready to do what was natural.

The chief rule of British Society: Sleep where you like, but be in your own bed by morning.

Like it or not, today we are all pioneers, picking our way through uncharted and unstable territory. The old rules are no longer reliable guides to work out modern gender roles and build a secure foundation for marriage. Wherever it is that people want to end up in their family relations today, even if they are totally committed to creating a so-called traditional marrige, they have to get there by a different route from the past.

S]ince the dawn of civilization, getting in-laws has been one of marriage's most important functions.

People have always loved a love story. But for most of the past our ancestors did not try to live in one.

I do not believe, then, that marriage was invented to oppress women any more than it was invented to protect them. In most cases, marriage probably originated as an informal way of organizing sexual companionship, child rearing, and the daily tasks of life.

The expectation of mutual fidelity is a rather recent invention. Numerous cultures have allowed husbands to seek sexual gratification outside marriage. Less frequently, but often enough to challenge common preconceptions, wives have also been allowed to do this without threatening the marriage. In a study of 109 societies, anthropologists found that only 48 forbade extramarital sex to both husbands and wives.27

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.

Burn a little incense, sacrifice a chicken or two, smoke a cigar, then shake your maracas and dance.

Walks the Fire is a good woman. She is white,but she has been among you for many years now.She was a good wife to Rides the Wind.She is a good mother to me.I remember your tales of how he hunted after she walked the fire to save Hears Not.When she was well, he held a banquet in her honor.You were all there to share his joy.

We'll make leadplant tea instead of coffe.Just tell them it's imported." Jesse whispered. "Mama,you taught me never to lie," LisBeth chided. "Well,it is imported-from the prairie!

I'm a Cynster--I've been raised to acquire, defend, and protect. My family is the core of my existence--without a family, without children, I'd have nothing to protect, no reason to acquire.

"Heirloom" is knitting code for "This pattern is so difficult that you would consider death a relief.

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?