tradition quotes

Theyare a great tradition†gliding in and out of the corridors of power with the opulent calm of angelfish swimming through an aquarian castle.

- Henry Southworth Allen
  Of presidential advisers. In the Washington Post, 3  Jan.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

-Jacques Barzun
  In Newsweek, 5 Dec.

Science†is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

- Max Born
  My Life and Views.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
  Orthodoxy, ch.4.

Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition.

- Arthur Hugh Clough
  The Latest Decalogue.

   History is more or less bunk. It's tradition.

- Henry Ford
  Interview, Chicago Tribune, May.

   Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.

- Colin MacInnes
England, Half English,'England, Half English'.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead; it means that the dead are living.

-Stockton
  In the Manchester Guardian,18 Dec.

It's all honourable enough in its way, but it creates societies which simply cannot sustain any kind of democratic structure. It always leads to totalitarian and corrupt tyrannies† There's no tradition of moral individual courage in Chinese culture.

-Timothy Mo
  Of Chinese tradition. In The Fiction Magazine, vol.1, no.4.

   Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one anotheronly in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

- Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
The Social System, ch.8.

Comment respecter la tradition, et innover en me"  me temps? Quel pari difficile! How to respect tradition and to innovate at the same time? What a difficult challenge!

- I(eoh) M(ing) Pei
  Les Grands desseins du Louvre (with E J Biasini).

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. 904

- Alfred North Whitehead
  Process and Reality, pt.2, ch.1, section1.