Tradition Quotes - Page 14

• Muslims have their own traditions. The important point to bear in mind is that the whole Muslim tradition is totally and unequivocally opposed to autocratic and oppressive government. This is very, very clear.

  Bernard Lewis

  Mind, Important

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• You see in the Muslim traditions, it's very clear: maintaining law and consultation, not being arbitrary and oppressive. Consultation. And also in the Muslim tradition, the power comes from within the group. I think that's very important.

  Bernard Lewis

  Thinking, Important

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• What has been happening in Turkey. The country has been taken over by the present rulers and they have been very, very skillful and taking over everything and taking over control over everything and now taking control over the judiciary. They will be taking over the constitution. Unless there will be some radical change, which is unlikely, I will say the tradition of Kemalism will be dead in Turkey. And Turkey is becoming a more Islamic state, in the traditional sense.

  Bernard Lewis

  Country, Taken, Islamic

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• One reason which I find particularly fascinating about Israel is this. There is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. There is a Jewish culture, a Jewish religion, but there is no such thing as a Jewish civilization. The Jews were a component basically of two civilizations. In the Western world, we talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition and you talk about the Judeo-Islamic tradition because there were large and important Jewish communities living in the lands of Islam.

  Bernard Lewis

  Community, Islam, Important

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• When we talk about the Judeo-Christian or the Judeo-Muslim tradition, it's important to remember that we are speaking of a Jewish component of civilization, but not in itself a civilization. What is happening now in Israel is that you have a coming together of Jews from the Christian world and Jews from the Muslim world with different cultures.

  Bernard Lewis

  Christian, Important, Together

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• The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

  Amy Adams

  Age, Together, Actors

  "Amy Adams On Set Interview THE MUPPETS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 20, 2011.

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• One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Wedding, Party, Two

  "Obsessions: Elizabeth Taylor, queen of cologne" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2011.

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• It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Tunes, Association

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

  Hannah Arendt

  Plato, Believe, Teaching

  Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn (2006). “Between Past and Future”, p.30, Penguin

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• Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

  Karen Armstrong

  Failing, Purity, Founders

  "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show". www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Python, Jewels, Oxford

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• Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Rights, Culture Religion, Violence

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Death, Talking, Demand

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• In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Tickets, Fans, Dollars

  "Dancer-actor Mikhail Baryshnikov". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. April 10, 2012.

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• Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.

  Evan Bayh

  Sports, Country, Baseball

  "Why I’m Leaving the Senate" by Evan Bayh, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2010.

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• I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

  Glenn Beck

  Inspiring, Memorial Day, Memories

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• The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Action, Reason

  Pope Benedict XVI's Address at The Meeting with The Representatives of British Society, Including The Diplomatic Corps, Politicians, Academics and Business Leaders, w2.vatican.va. September 17, 2010.

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• Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Islamic, Intellectual, Age

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

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• I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.

  Bjork

  My Family, Farmers, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

  Cate Blanchett

  Australia, Long

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• I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on.

  Dave Brubeck

  Believe, Player, Records

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• Custom reconciles us to everything.

  Edmund Burke

  Reconcile, Customs

  'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 4, sect. 18

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• Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

  Nicolas Cage

  Children, Giving, Enchanting

  "Not much rattling Nicolas Cage these days". Interview with Andrea Mineo, edition.cnn.com. July 24, 2009.

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• 'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching.

  Nicolas Cage

  Knowing, Needs, Fiction

  "Nicolas Cage Interview - KNOWING". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. March 18, 2009.

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• I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.

  Anne Campbell

  Thinking, Long, Boards

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