Quotes About Tradition

The gesture, rather than the word, is the true transmitter of traditions.

The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills... The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction. The past that he admires is not a goal but an exemplification of his dreams.

Sólo las letras antiguas curan la sarna moderna.

Opinions, customs, institutions, cities—everything has become vulgar, since we gave up repairing the old in order to buy every day some gaudy novelty.

Wenn ein Reaktionär von "unvermeidlicher Restauration" spricht, dürfen wir nicht vergessen, dass der Reaktionär in Jahrtausenden rechnet.

The classical languages have educational value because they are safe from the vulgarity with which modern life corrupts languages in use.

Civilizations are not made "avec des idées" but with good manners.

Civilization is not an endless succession of inventions and discoveries, but the task of ensuring that certain things last.

Alles was ein Tradition unterbricht zwingt zu neuem Anfang. Und jeder Anfang ist blutig.

The true religion is monastic, ascetic, authoritarian, hierarchical.

El Occidente habrá muerto, cuando deje de ser la presencia de Grecia en un alma cristiana.

Der Fortschrittler triumphiert immer und der Reaktionär hat immer recht. Recht haben heißt in der Politik nicht die Szene beherrschen, sondern vom ersten Akt an die Leichen des fünften vorhersagen.

Al despojarse de la túnica cristiana y de la toga clásica, no queda del europeo sino un bárbaro pálido

When he repudiates rites, man reduces himself to an animal that copulates and eats.

Wie eine Tradition aufrecht erhalten? Indem man nicht von ihr spricht.

When economic and social revolutions are not simply ideological pretexts for religious crises, after a few years of disorder everything continues as before.

When respect for tradition dies out, society, in its incessant desire to renew itself, consumes itself in a frenzy.

Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road "change." The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense. The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man.

Wenn ein Reaktionär von "unvermeidlicher Restauration" spricht, dürfen wir nicht vergessen, dass der Reaktionär Jahrtausenden rechnet.

Conservatism should not be a party but the normal attitude of every decent man.

Everything that interrupts a tradition obliges us to start over. And every origin is bloody .

The pure reactionary is not a dreamer of abolished pasts, but a hunter of sacred shades on the eternal hills.

He followed in his father's footsteps, but his gait was somewhat erratic.

I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.