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 that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
View quotes by Gilbert Keith ChestertonIf I belong to a
tradition, it is a
tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
View quotes by Alfred BrendelAs soon as
tradition has come to be recognised as
tradition, it is dead.
View quotes by Allan BloomBut it seems to me that we ended up with the things that were able to fit in what had already been the
tradition.
View quotes by David BakerFollowing the Romanian
tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.
View quotes by Calvin TrillinThe
tradition of baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is 'do anything you can get away with'
View quotes by Heywood BrounLeadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to
tradition.
View quotes by Cyril FallsI thought it was just December 25 you were supposed to hand out gifts - we've carried on the
tradition to January 2 as well
View quotes by Glen HoddleIt's like an American
tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.
View quotes by Barbra StreisandAfter an interval of two and a half centuries, the
tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.
View quotes by James M BaldwinHer [Diana's] blood family will do all they can to ensure her sons are not simply immersed by duty and
tradition.
View quotes by Charles SpencerA fundamental problem in such studies stems from the long
tradition that has regarded artistic productions as social facts.
View quotes by Norman DenzinThe Christian
tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
View quotes by Mary BatesonTo keep up even a worthwhile
tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a 'mummified' form.
View quotes by Alfred JarryIn the true sense one's native land, with its background of
tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
View quotes by Emma GoldmanThink freely and independently or you are a slave bound by imaginary
shackles. These shackles may be wrought by
tradition, emotion, neediness, or
fear.
View quotes by Jason MercheyThe political
tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs.
View quotes by Silvio BerlusconiThere is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated
tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
View quotes by Camille Paglia The ancient Romans had a
tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.
View quotes by Michael ArmstrongThe few really great - the major novelists... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life (The Great
Tradition)
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