382 Quotes About Tradition

You have to take this with you too,” she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. “My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you’re leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her.

Es ist ein Verdrängungsmechanismus, zu behaupten, die Gewalt, die wir erleben, habe nichts mit dem Islam zu tun. Es ist das Ausweichen vor einer kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit den Teilen der islamischen Tradition, die längst überholt sind. Die islamische Theologie muss sich dieser Auseinandersetzung stellen.

Don’t be controlled by the tradition of men

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

We believe that a man does not have to be devoted to the winning side for his loyalty to be celebrated with reverence.

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

The patriarchy longs for the days 'when men were men' and women were oppressed, subservient - and they can see no wrong in it. It justifies its former power and lust to hold on to it - and if possible, to regain it by quoting fundamentalist and radical religion and tradition and calling it 'love'. Some love. How can oppression and power over another person's life ever be 'love'?