Haile Selassie
Emperor
"We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully."
Tradition quotes
Tradition
437 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"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."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity"
Lewis Mumford
Philosopher, Author
"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."
Joyce Carol Oates
Author, Poet
"Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality."
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"More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth."
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"Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it."
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"Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it."
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"I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I like things to be modern and still have a bit of tradition"
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"I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition."
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"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born."
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"Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone."
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"I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition."
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"Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism."
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"Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason."
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"Tradition is the illusion of permanance."
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"An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time."
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"I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions."
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"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
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"Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith."
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"The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it"
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"When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day."
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