tradition quotes

• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [tradition/democracy/tradition]
• Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. (Winston Churchill) [tradition/art/innovation]
• Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. (Dorothy Day) [tradition/generosity]
• The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. (Albert Einstein) [tradition]
• A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. (Thomas Eliot) [tradition/intelligence]
• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. (Hermann Hesse) [age/culture/tradition/character]
• Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. (Soren Kierkegaard) [marriage/connection/tradition/customs]
• Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory -- to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served. (Walter Lippmann) [tradition/slave/genius/time]
• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. (William Somerset Maugham) [tradition]
• This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. (Henry David Thoreau) [government/tradition/posterity/willpower]
• The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. (Oscar Wilde) [youth/america/tradition]
• I'm from East Berlin. I grew up in the Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weil tradition, also in the old hippie tradition. (Nina Hagen) [tradition/tradition]
• I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles. (Debbie Harry) [think/tradition]
• In keeping with Miramax tradition, I was instructed to find the 'hottest young stars around' to cast in the movie. I got a list of two names: Michelle Monaghan and Casey Affleck. I was lucky enough to get them both. (Ben Affleck) [tradition/find/movie]
• If these theatres didn't exist, the tradition of British theatre would cease to exist. (David Soul) [tradition/theatre]
• The competitions are as much a part of the tradition as the actual dances. (Eddie Murphy) [tradition]
• Our faith is grounded in our Jewish tradition. We believe we're from the House of David. We believe we're from the House of Abraham, so we cannot hate our own. (James Caviezel) [faith/tradition]
• I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones. (Kathleen Turner) [think/tradition/respect/experience]
• I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York. (Kim Basinger) [willpower/tradition]
• The film follows very much in the tradition of social realism, because I wanted to see a subject like this tackled with honesty. (Gary Oldman) [film/tradition/honesty]
• “I mean, we are talking about one of the most celebrated and twisted characters of Western tradition. It gives you a sense of a do-or-die bravado.” (Geoffrey Rush) [tradition]

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