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Quotations by Subject: Tradition
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Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.: Barbara Tober
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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 the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Orthodoxy
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.: Kurt Herbert Alder
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.: Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)


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