Traditional Quotes

• Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

  Lewis Mumford

  Past, Tradition, Pessimist

  Lewis Mumford (1940). “Faith for living”

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• Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

  Mike Tyson

  Respect, Honesty, Kindness

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Life, Death, Faith

  Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• All significant breakthroughs are break -“withs” old ways of thinking.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Thinking, Way

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• I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

  Carrie Fisher

  Falling In Love, Book, Reading

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

  Juliette Lewis

  Straight Up, Vocalist

  "The Hard Lovin’ Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• My views about hell are very traditional.

  T. D. Jakes

  Views, Hell

  Source: thechurchladyblogs.com

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• What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Rights, Greed, Growth

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• In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

  Leon Krier

  Cities, Skylines, Facts

  Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.83, Papadakis Publisher

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• But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

  Brian De Palma

  Thinking, Numbers, Noir

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• People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

  Franklin Foer

  Kfc, People, Islam

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Business, Essentials, Tradition

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• I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

  Ralph Stanley

  Country, Mountain, Fit

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• These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

  John Scott

  Church, Moral, Decline

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• Maybe I am too traditional, but men feel important when you ask for their help instead of thinking you can do it all on your own.

  Miranda Kerr

  Men, Thinking, Important

  "Miranda Kerr, being in a 'traditional' marriage is no recipe for happiness" by Van Badham, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2013.

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• I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

  Paul Smith

  Book, Furniture, Technique

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• People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.

  Clive Rowe

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Interview with Ryan Ormonde, www.londoncalling.com. November 21, 2015.

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• If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Thinking, Culture, Mixtures

  "I Remain Fascinated by Memory". Interview with Michael Scott Moore and Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. October 5, 2005.

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• [Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

  William J. Clinton

  Islam, Harmony, Devotion

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• The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Heart, Long, Worry

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Views, Long, Misunderstood

  "Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, pp. 2 - 3, 1987.

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• All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heaven, Logic, Study

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• Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Fashion, Past, Class

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• The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

  Karl Marx

  Ideas, Development, Rupture

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.81, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, "Then what good is God?

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Men, Talking, Heaven

  Miguel de Unamuno (1977). “The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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