Quotes About Traditionalism

Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.

From its skillful editing to its out-of-control budget and its relentless marketing, Mr. Obama's team played a different game at a different level than Sen. John McCain and his traditionalist staff.

Women should remain at home, sit still, and bear children.

Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.

la opinión común a todos los hombres es que las mujeres nunca sirvieron para otra cosa que para traer hijos e hilar la lana.

The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.

Jake ignored him and went on. "If I ever do hook up with anybody again - and I sincerely doubt that I will, so wipe that hopeful look off your face - it will be with someone who thinks that being with somebody who mows lawns is her idea of heaven on earth and who will do exactly what I tell her to do and love it. I think Donna Reed is dead, Will said.

If women die in childbed, that does no harm. It is what they were made for.

We reactionaries provide idiots the pleasure of feeling like daring avant-garde thinkers.

The reactionary's objection is not discussed; it is disdained.

But, writing in the late 1940s, he found himself commending the 'traditionalism' of the revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. It was Zapata, he wrote, who had freed 'Mexican reality from the constricting schemes of liberalism, and the abuses of the conservatives and neo-conservatives'. Such 'traditionalists', ranging from Gandhi to Rabindranath Tagore to Liang Qichao, had also emerged in many other non-Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century.