Tradition

(155 votes)   Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

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(134 votes)   A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(133 votes)   People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(131 votes)   Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(127 votes)   Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.

Dorothy Day
1897-1980, American Religious Leader

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(110 votes)   It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(109 votes)   To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a ''mummified'' form.

Alfred Jarry
1873-1907, French Playwright, Author

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