Quotes About Tradition

The hardest thing in the world is making a kid happy after he's been circumcised.

There is no "universal moral urge" and not all ethical systems agree. Polygamy, human sacrifice, infanticide, cannibalism (Eucharist), wife beating, self-mutilation, foot binding, preemptive war, torture of prisoners, circumcision, female genital mutilation, racism, sexism, punitive amputation, castration and incest are perfectly "moral" in certain cultures. Is god confused?

New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don't keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future doesn't exist.

It's a polygamous culture, and Ouimet treated several men who had been anointed with boiling water by their jealous wives.

Human life is given meaning, focus, direction: by the past. In: BBC4 The Road to Palmyra

DRESS UP AS FOR CIVIL WAR WEEK?

On the morning of the wedding, my mom said I had to wear a jacket and tie. What's up with that? Why do men have to wear a dumb cloth around their neck? Whoever thought up that idea should get the Nobrain Prize. That's a prize they give to people who don't have brains.

You cling to culture like an orphan drags her rag doll from foster home to foster home. It is your last soiled reminder of what you think you were. You'd rather die at the stake than adapt or evolve because change is scary. So you guard the same tired shit as if it's a precious, sacrosanct relic from the holy crusades of your ancestors when, in fact, it is a withered turn wrapped in butcher paper.

Whatever the tradition is, if that tradition becomes more important than the mission of seeing people come to know Jesus, then it's time for the whip.

En tradition er en flov undskyldning for en evig gentagelse af de samme dumheder

This book challenges such traditional ways of seeing and writing about art.

I attended Catholic schools at a time when Latin was still a living ritual language.

was taught to give back. In the village, the old way, the right way, the one way is to give back, always somehow, in some way to give back.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."—MICHAEL POLLAN

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Afghan villages traditionally ran their own affairs, each valley a law unto itself. Afghanistan never enjoyed much of a central government.

If I could get a sense of the way your culture works by meeting just one person, who would that person be?)

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

I wish I was in de land ob cotton,Old times dar am not forgotten.Look away, look away,Look away, Dixie Land.

In the name of rejecting ecclesiastical authority as "hierarchy" or "tradition" as theological manipulation and bondage, we have instead created a hermeneutic of suspicion and have invested every biblically informed conscience (instead of a pope) to speak ex cathedra. It is a Pyrrhic victory for Free church Protestantism when the net effect of its teaching results in the replacing of the tyranny of the magisterium with the tyranny of individualism.

Throughout most of the world and for most of human history, music making was as natural an activity as breathing and walking, and everyone participated. Concert halls, dedicated to the performance of music, arose only in the last several centuries.

Housing traditionally is not viewed as a great investment. It takes maintenance; it depreciates. It goes out of style. All of those are problems. And there's technical progress in housing. So, new ones are better. So, why was it considered an investment? That was a fad.

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.

Mythologicals and historicals have always found takers in India. The audience identifies with them and they make for good family viewing.