Tradition Quotes

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

We are a nation called to defend freedom - a tradition that is not a grant of any government or document, but is an endowment from God.

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own.

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.

Half of tradition is a lie.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice of the Church.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.

The dead govern the living.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition

Creating traditions in the blended family promote unity and a sense of belonging.

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

Tradition is the social equivalent of personal habit.

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.