“The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.” YearsStatesFeelingsAgeFormStrongReligiousGloryEuropeTraditionAncientDevotionProtectedSanctityTerritorialFatherland Author:Christian Lous Lange
“In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.” ShouldArtIdeasEuropeTradition Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen
“Other teams have offered me really big money but my love for Galatasaray is real. I want to play in major leagues and my dream team is Liverpool F.C. As I always mention, Liverpool attracts me because of their tradition. In Europe, I am a Liverpool supporter, so if I go to play in Europe, I would like to play for them.” IfsWantRealPlayDreamBigsTeamMajorsEuropeTraditionLeagueSupporterLiverpoolMajor LeagueDream Team Author:Arda Turan
“I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?” ArtUseFeltLonelinessNew YorkStudentsEuropeTraditionLonelyLongingTheatreIntenseGermanyBewilderedCraftsmanship Book:Alfred Stieglitz Source: Alfred Stieglitz
“One of the things that helped me a lot as I was starting out in my career was that I got myself to France and Europe and California, and spent time immersing myself in those culinary traditions. I'd encourage future chefs to dive into whatever culture most excites them, and that they want to cook.” WantCultureCareersEuropeTraditionStartingFranceCooksCaliforniaCulinaryChefStarting Out Author:Rick Tramonto
“The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense that reason could be employed to make the world a better place.” WorldReasonPoliticalPowerfulLeaderCenturyPeriodsEnlightenmentEuropeTraditionRootsEmployedBetter PlacePolitical Leaders Book:The Tragedy of Great Power Politics Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
“The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.” PoliticalSocialJusticePartyGreaterEuropeTraditionSocial JusticeDemocratConservativeReformFairnessConservative PartyPolitical Reform Author:Nick Clegg
“[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.” ThinkingSelfCountrySubjectsEuropeTraditionComplexesWesternDeeperTreatedRevelationsPopular MusicSelf RevelationWestern MusicCountry WesternCountry Western Music Author:Leonard Cohen
“This old aristocracy and Church-ridden, and tradition-ridden country will never grow wiser. Whilst we are fighting for supremacy in Europe, the [United] States are working, and not fighting for it, but winning it all over the world.” WorldCountryStatesFightingWinningGrowsChurchUnitedUnited StatesEuropeTraditionWiserAristocracySupremacy Author:John Bright
“America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.” IfsEndsAmericaFailingRiskEuropeTraditionRootsConservativeFinishedJailBusinessmanPioneersRisk-taking Author:Stelios Haji-Ioannou
“The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.” WritingBookStoriesTodayFacesThreeSocialCenturyEmpathyEuropeTraditionPressureEnjoyedNovelistsCourageousCriticizeTimingHonorableParallelsFreethinkerWeavingNotoriousErudition Author:Joscelyn Godwin
“First of all, in many Muslim countries women have incredible amounts of freedom, sometimes more than in some countries in Europe. So you cannot just make a generalized statement about women. Second, Islam is not the problem. It's tradition. It's culture. It's age-old mind-sets that need to be changed.” NeedsMindFirstsCountrySometimesProblemAgeCultureChangedAmountEuropeTraditionIslamIncrediblesStatementsMind Set Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.” TryingFirstsStatesWould BePrinciplesIdentityWillingPersonalityFitEuropeTraditionStrongerIndependentActiveFranceOperationsFollyBritainCustomsSovereignSpainGuiding Principles Book:CPC [publications]. Source: CPC [publications].
“So the tradition from Europe is that you're supposed to emphasize the mind over the body, so you sing from a very kind of staid perspective. Again, there are charismatic white congregations all over, and they don't sing that way. But, you know, on the average.” KnowsWayMindKindBodyWhitePerspectiveEuropeTraditionAverageCongregationCharismatic Author:Michael Emerson
“It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.” IdeasEuropeTraditionRecoveryBrownSubstitutesThinkerLinkedTransfersAmerican TraditionLacanDerridaLeslieTriads Author:Camille Paglia
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” KnowledgeEuropeTraditionPhilosophicalSeriesPlatoCharacterizationFootnotes Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“Taking the continent as a whole, this religious tension may be responsible for the revival of the commonest racial feeling. Africa is divided into Black and White, and the names that are substituted- Africa south of the Sahara, Africa north of the Sahara- do not manage to hide this latent racism. Here, it is affirmed that White Africa has a thousand-year-old tradition of culture; that she is Mediterranean, that she is a continuation of Europe and that she shares in Graeco-Latin civilization. Black Africa is looked on as a region that is inert, brutal, uncivilized - in a word, savage.” YearsMayWholeFeelingsCultureNamesBlackReligiousWhiteShareCivilizationThousandRacismEuropeTraditionResponsibleSouthManageTensionRegionsLatinDividedContinentsBlack And WhiteBrutalSavagesThousand YearsRevivalBeing ResponsibleLatentContinuationUncivilizedSaharaOld Traditions Author:Frantz Fanon
“It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.” WholeAmericaViewsStudyCenturyDisciplinePeriodsEuropeTraditionWestIslamWesternPoint Of ViewIslamicEstablishmentScholarChapters20th CenturyScientismRationalismHistory Of SciencePositivismEurope And America Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr