Quotes About Tradition

As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

THE YEAR WAS 1988. I had taken a job helping young people on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota to collect the memories of the tribal elders. It was a wonderful job, and tremendously rewarding. As well as working with young people, I had the good fortune to meet and share time with the elders. I sat at their tables, heard their stories, shared their laughter, and felt their sadness. It was a profoundly human time, and I valued it more than I can express.

Every man thinks with himself, I am well, I am wise, and laughs at others; and ?tis a general fault amongst them all, that which our forefathers approved?diet, apparel, humours, customs, manners?we deride and reject in our time as absurd.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

No generation can escape history.

You'll wear the taweez and drink Zam Zam, but you'll also read.

It was always this way with our fathers. They made stories of cruelty seem so funny.

For our families in Pakistan, our parents were the real Santa Claus.

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

The older generation of Vikings no doubt complained that the younger generation were getting soft and did not rape and pillage with the same dedication as in years gone by.

We have let the house our fathers built fall into decay, and now we try to break into Oriental palaces that our fathers never knew. Anyone who has lost the historical symbols and cannot be satisfied with substitutes is certainly in a very difficult position today: before him there yawns the void, and he turns away from it in horror. What is worse, the vacuum gets filled with absurd political and social ideas, which one and all are distinguished by their spiritual bleakness.

Whoever protects himself against what is new and strange and thereby regresses to the past, falls into the same neurotic condition as the man who identifies himself with the new and runs away from the past.

Les réformes qui tiennent compte de l'expérience passée sont en général moins coûteuses et en outre elles sont durables, car elles retournent vers les voies simples et plus éprouvées de jadis et ne font qu'un usage très modéré des journaux, de la radio, de la télévision et de toutes les innovations faites soi-disant pour gagner du temps. (p. 377)

nothing is holy any longer.

Loss of roots and lack of tradition neuroticize the masses and prepare them for collective hysteria. Collective hysteria calls for collective therapy, which consists in abolition of liberty and terrorization. Where rational istic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums.

Religion is important to the order of society. It reconciles the lower classes to their lot in life and teaches them to respect their betters.

En el prefacio se cita el credo del picapedrero medieval: «Nosotros, cuyo oficio es cortar simples piedras, debemos tener siempre en mente las catedrales».

It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

The only thing that will make it possible for you to marry is if you meet your bridegroom on your wedding day, so he doesn't have the chance to get to know you ahead of time.

Still, a custom that has not been strictly outlawedmay always be revived.

The Bible was perfectly clear on this point: 'Woman shall be silent in the congregation.' What was there to discuss? Women had no business being members of the clergy.

Si quitásemos a los toros la ciencia cierta de acabar sus nobles, sus violentos cuatro años con tres palmos de acero cruzándoles las entrañas, los toros, como flores segadas, no serían sino el bello recuerdo de una estampa de un cimbrearse al viento