Quotes tagged ‘Tradition’

“Mr. Sir: Stanley Yelnats...the Fourth? Stanley: Everyone in my family names their son Stanley, ‘cause it’s Yelnats backwards. It’s this little...tradition.”

— Louis Sachar, Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Jon Voight, imdb.com

“Fuck tradition.”

— Bryan Cogman, Jaime Lannister, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, imdb.com

“Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham: You Americans never understand the importance of tradition. Martha Levinson: Yes we do. We just don't give it power over us... history and tradition took Europe into a world war. Maybe you should think about letting go of its hand.”

— Julian Fellowes, Andy Goddard, Violet Crawley, Maggie Smith, imdb.com

“It took untold generations to get you where you are. A little gratitude might be in order. If you're going to insist on bending the world to your way, you better have your reasons.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, amazon.com

“In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition, religion, and even nation-centered cultures, partly to decrease the danger of group conflict. But we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness, and that is no improvement at all.”

— Jordan B. Peterson, amazon.com

“'My mother was, in the tradition of parents, quite a complicated and contradictory human being. Moralistic but a devout lover of pleasure (food, music, the aesthetics of nature). Deeply religious but seemingly as comforted by singing a secular chanson as by prayer. A lover of the natural world who w…”

— Matt Haig, amazon.com

“Things don't become traditions because they're good, BoJack, they become good because they're traditions.”

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Todd Chavez (voice), Aaron Paul, imdb.com

“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.”

— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com

“We all know that any emotional bias—irrespective of truth or falsity—can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions of the young, hence the inherited traditions of an orthodox community are absolutely without evidential value....If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their yo…”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com

“The application of force alone, without support based on a spiritual concept, can never bring about the destruction of an idea or arrest the propagation of it, unless one is ready and able to ruthlessly to exterminate the last upholders of that idea even to a man, and also wipe out any tradition whi…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“What was missing in all of them, he thought, was a recognition of Africans as people with projects—lives they were leading, aspirations they were striving for—and a rich existing culture, exemplified in the proverbs and the religious traditions that are threaded through these novels. He was writing,…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The vision should never stray far from the teaching of the elders. The old tunic fits better and it always more comfortable; it survives the hardships of the bush while the new or untried tunic is quickly torn.”

— Genghis Khan, amazon.com

“There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. Law as an instrument of state oppression is a familiar feature of totalitarianism. Without a popularly elected legislature and an indep…”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“It is a strong argument for democracy that governments regulated by principles of accountability, respect for public opinion and the supremacy of just laws are more likely than an all-powerful ruler or ruling class, uninhibited by the need to honour the will of the people, to observe the traditional…”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“I started with the origins of tradition, but I was not bound by it.”

— Ralph Lauren, global.ralphlauren.com

“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.”

— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com

“I don't like to tell people what I think is good or bad about the social and psychic changes caused by new media, but if you insist on pinning me down about my own subjective reactions as I observe the reprimitivization of our culture, I would have to say that I view such upheavals with total person…”

— Marshall McLuhan, cs.ucdavis.edu