Classical music is a wonderful 1200 year-old tradition that witnesses everything that it has meant and what it means right now to be human.
When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.
"Do not believe anything merely because you are told it is so, because others believe it, because it comes from Tradition, or because you have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect. Believe, take for your doctrine, and hold true to that, which, after serious investigation, seems to you to further the welfare of all beings. "
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.
It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.
Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices?. . . a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
It might be crazy to expect a high government official to speak the truth. It might be crazy to believe that government policy will be something more than the handmaiden of the most powerful interests. It might be crazy to argue that we should preserve a tradition that has been part of our tradition for most of our history -- free culture. If this is crazy, then let there be more crazies. Soon.
It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.
I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.
There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.
Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.
I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.
I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?
The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.
The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.
I just feel passionately about the horses and I will until it's no longer a tradition in New York.
I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.