People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
Irving Kristol
ReligionPeopleTraditionPlaceNeed
Many and subtle are the ideological weapons that the State has wielded through the centuries. Once excellent weapon has been tradition. The longer that the rule of a State has been able to preserve itself, the more powerful this weapon; for then, the X Dynasty or the Y State has the seeming weight of centuries of tradition behind it.
Murray Rothbard
TraditionPowerfulMoreThroughRule
The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.
Roger Clemens
TexasTraditionYouUniversityLike
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
Harold Prince
LoveTraditionBoldBigTruthful
It never occurred to me that artists, of all people, have to be reminded that instinct is more important than tradition, but in our industry, people seem to forget that sometimes.
Lexi Alexander
PeopleMeTraditionForgetSometimes
We all know how big Liverpool Football Club is. It is a club with a lot of tradition.
Roberto Firmino
FootballTraditionKnowClubBig
Our sport probably has the best history and tradition of being engaged in international competition.
Gary Bettman
HistoryBestCompetitionTradition
One feels very blessed to be born into a family like the Birla family, which is a household name in India, which stands for tradition, is yet contemporary, stands for trust.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
FamilyTrustBlessedNameTradition
I'm a brown girl from a Punjabi pind raised in Toronto. I don't expect literary critics and purists to understand the nuances of my experiences, and the experiences of the people around me... And my tradition holds that there is a magic in the written word. So how I write, what I write of, and why I write all comes naturally.
Rupi Kaur
GirlPeopleMeTraditionMagicWhy
What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
F. Sionil Jose
ArtTraditionCriticalFactOur
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
Khaled Hosseini
GreatPoetryLiteratureTradition
The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking Greek tragedy.
Mary Beard
PeopleTraditionTragedyDramaWhy
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
Camilla Lackberg
FireWritingTraditionEnjoySitting
In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.'
Gunter Blobel
RichCharityTraditionEnoughSay
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.
Michael Polanyi
ScienceArtTraditionSaidCallMay
We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
Caitlyn Jenner
GreatAmazingRichTraditionBack
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
Henry R. Luce
GreatTimeTraditionJournalismWant
For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition - photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.
Mira Nair
MyselfTraditionCinemaThings Happen
It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
Damian Lewis
GoodDinnerCricketTraditionYou
There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.
George Wald
WarTraditionWorthNothingDefend
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
Loretta Lynn
HistoryMountainTraditionKnowKind
After my mother died, I learned that she'd had a scholarship to the University of Nebraska, but - in kind of a tradition that females don't do things like that - her father prevented her from going. She always said that she wasn't allowed to go to college, but until she died, I never knew that she'd had this scholarship.
Barry Barish
FatherMotherCollegeTraditionSaid
As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.
Eugene Kennedy
ControlTraditionDownTopDiscover
I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.
Josephine de La Baume
TraditionNiceBit
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