382 Quotes About Tradition

You can’t change traditions just because you don’t like them.

When darkness becomes tradition, someone must rise as the destroyer of that tradition.

The literature on Hegel is fond of representing him as someone who had very particular ideas and opinions. That is not only false; Hegel would have found it embarassing.

Tradition-that's what they call the chains that bind one to a fatuous past.

Traditions and dogmas rub one another down to a minimum in such centers of varied intercourse; where there are a thousand faiths we are apt to become sceptical of them all.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

So,” he throttled shift knob into fifth gear half a block from a stop sign, “you’re from Great Britain.”“Yes. England. The North. Sheffield.”“Why you guys drive on the left?”“Obviously, because it’s right.”“I’m being serious.”“Are you?”“I’m askin, aren’t I?”“I don’t know. Tradition, I suppose.”“That’s a dumb-ass reason.”“Then perhaps you should start driving on the left.

It's a shadelight," Grimm said quietly. "Some of my men put one up whenever I lose a member of the crew. To light his shade's way back to his bunk, so he can rest.""A bit heathen of them, I suppose," Benedict said."It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

It is this simple, not everything that is old is bad, but at the same time, just because it is old and traditional, doesn't make it civilized.