Walter Lippmann Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

  Walter Lippmann

  Average, Genius, Machines

• The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an ordered more or less consistent picture of the world, to which our habits, our tastes, our capacities, our comforts and our hopes have adjusted themselves. They may not be a complete picture of the world, but they are a picture of a possible world to which we are adapted. In that world, people and things have their well-known places, and do certain expected things. We feel at home there. We fit in. We are members.

  Walter Lippmann

  Home, People, May

• Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

  Walter Lippmann

  Records, Machines, Tradition

• 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

  Men, Tradition, Progressive

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