Quotes About Tradition

This book is, among other things, a summons to pessimism. What is needed now, and what it is especially incumbent on conservatives to provide, is intelligent pessimism that is more than a mere mood. It should be a mentality grounded in a philosophic tradition that has a distinguished pedigree, and that is validated by abundant historical evidence for this proposition: Nothing lasts.

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

Women whose husbands were living were addressed as and referred to as Mrs. and their husband's name. After the husband's death, a woman may have been addressed as Mrs., her own first name, and her husband's surname.

Superstitions add texture to life.

People do horrible things in the name of keeping things just the way they are.

But why is it so . . . aesthetically lacking?" "It's tradition. The uglier the bridesmaid's dress, the better the bride looks. Also, it's a great distraction. Everyone who witnessed me leaving will remember this monstrosity and little else.

What is this Christmas?" Wing asked. Orro turned from the stove. "It's the rite of passage during which the young males of the human species learn to display aggression and use weapons." Sean

Filial Piety, which is considered one of the two wheels of the chariot of Japanese ethics—Loyalty being the other.

Hun ba for de døde og sendte lykkønskningsbrev til de levende hver gang det var bryllup eller barnedåp - akkurat som engelskmennene i koloniene, som drakk seg fulle i all ensomhet hver gang London feiret dronningens fødselsdag.

Well, everything's nicer when you can think about Christmas.

Society conspires to make a newly wed couple feel virtuous. Marriage is a symbol of goodness, though it is only a symbol.

Perversity and obstinacy are integral tae the Scottish character.

Erezia unei genera?ii este ortodoxia genera?iei urm?toare.

And so it happened, that when others bent their knee, he refused and added loudly that his ancestors in their time bowed no knee to any stinking mayor. And in his ancestors' time the mayor was elected anyhow, and kicked out at will, and that the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration—a stagnation!

In fact, it was part of the Tyrannian military tradition that a little discomfort on the part of the soldier was good for discipline.

La religión es una de las grandes influencias civilizadoras de la historia

In Russia, receiving a letter was such a rare phenomenon that any member of the family who got his hands on it first opened it.

Culture dictates invention

Ar refuza s? ne asculte. ?i È™tii de ce? Pentru c? au anumite idei fixe cu privire la trecut. Orice schimbare e o blasfemie în ochii lor, chiar dac? e adev?rul-adev?rat. Nu vor adev?rul; îÈ™i vor doar tradiÈ›iile lor.

In Russia, there was one cure for every illness—vodka.

She had learned to drink in Russia.

Spesso le persone sostengono che gli umani hanno sempre mangiato animali, come se questo giustificasse la continuazione della pratica. Secondo questa logica, non dovremmo neppure impedire l'omicidio, perché anch'esso è sempre stato praticato dall'inizio dei tempi

Although I had turned away from the Jewish path i still carried the diaspora on me