Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.
Matthew ScullyTags: tradition
Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.
Matthew ScullyTags: tradition
Traditions have been replaced by lifestyles.
Lars Fredrik Händler SvendsenTags: tradition lifestyles
Don’t accuse others of eating when juice smears your face-fur.
David BowlesTags: tradition nakÿng-sayings exhortation
Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.
Ariel SabarTags: life language tradition language-learning
The Dolly's around here can't be seen to coddle a snitch's family --- that's the always been our way. We're old blood, us people, and our ways was set firm long before hot shot baby Jesus ever even burped milk'n sh*
Daniel WoodrellTags: family loyalty tradition
It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that lead a nation or a literature to fresh achievements, are the unknown many whose patient efforts keep the world from running backward; who guard and maintain the ancient values, even if they do not conquer new; whose inconspicuous triumph it is to pass on what they inherited from their fathers, unimpaired and undiminished, to their sons. Enough, for almost all of us, if we can hand on the torch, and not let it down; content to win the affection, if it may be, of a few who know us and to be forgotten when they in their turn have vanished. The destiny of mankind is not governed wholly by its 'stars'.
F.L. LucasTags: style writing literature language tradition continuity
It is not easy to get rid of weeds; but it is easy, by a process of neglect, to ruin your food crops and let them revert to their primitive state of wildness. [...] In political civilization, the state is an abstraction and the relationship of men utilitarian. Because it has no roots in sentiments, it is so dangerously easy to handle. Half a century has been enough for you to master this machine; and there are men among you, whose fondness for it exceeds their love for the living ideals which were born with the birth of your nation and nursed in your centuries. It is like a child who in the excitement of his play imagines he likes his playthings better than his mother.
Rabindranath TagoreTags: politics values western-civilization tradition east-and-west
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.
Letty Cottin PogrebinTags: feminism tradition role-of-women
The human soul can always use a new tradition. Sometimes we require them.
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