“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.” PeopleThinkingHumansImportantStoriesSidesDarkFireViolenceFashionHuman NatureSittingTraditionDietsCynicismBrutalityDark SideSitting AroundStaples Author:Eric Stoltz
“I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.” ImportantTraditionAnthemNational AnthemSinging The National Anthem Author:Kate Mara
“Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.” MenFeelsShouldStillsImportantExampleBrotherDadTraditionCookingMy DadChineseMy BrotherInferiorsSwans Author:Katie Leung
“Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, in that case, to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?” IfsShouldWritingImportantCertainCoursesLeftChurchCasesClearTraditionRegardConstantAncientAriseCommitCatholicismRelativeDisputesApostlesIntercourseRecourseImportant Questions Author:Irenaeus of Lyons
“My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenImportantHomeAgeYoungFoundParentSecurityComfortMassAspectTraditionWho I AmHolidaySundayRitualStabilitySchedulesCraveYoung AgeHome For The Holidays Author:Chloe Sevigny
“Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.” KnowsTryingDoeImportantPhilosophyProblemPastSolutionsTraditionPreparedExperimentsOur TimeLiberalism Author:Pierre Trudeau
“American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.” ImportantReasonTruthLyingSimpleWorstTruth IsEthicsTraditionPropagandaTruthfulCredibleBelievablePersuasiveBeing TruthfulAmerican Tradition Author:Edward R. Murrow
“As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.” PeopleBelieveChildrenImportantTogetherLawUsedForceSocialPracticeFemaleTraditionFoundationDiscriminationCodeJustifyEldersGreat RespectMutilationInfanticide Author:Mary Robinson
“It is a cultural tradition that makes New Orleans what it is. It also represents the roots of American music and an important part of the African-American community in New Orleans. It unites people in some of the poorer neighborhoods of the city. It is absolutely critical to continue.” PeopleImportantCommunityCitiesTraditionRootsCriticalAfrican AmericanNeighborhoodNew OrleansAmerican Music Author:Bill Taylor
“Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean, of course, that we should dismiss it as artificial or insincere. All aristocracies have a strong military tradition, and for many British patricians the protracted warfare of the period was a godsend. It gave them a job, and, more important, a purpose, an opportunity to carry out what they had been trained to do since childhood: ride horses, fire guns, exercise their undoubted physical courage and tell other people what to do.” PeopleShouldMeanDoeImportantStatesJobsPurposeCoursesOpportunityStrongFireChildhoodMilitaryPeriodsExerciseGunTraditionFunctionHorseBritishPropagandaElitesArtificialHeroismWarfareCultAristocracyBritish HistoryInsincereOstentatiousPhysical Courage Author:Linda Colley
“It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.” IfsImportantStatesWisdomAblePoliticsBreakEconomyAmountResourcesTraditionInstrumentsAssumingRewardsRateDetermineProductionsLiberalismAccomplishedDevotedOwnershipSocialization Book:General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money Source: General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
“An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones.” BelieveImportantSometimesPhilosophyFormNaturalViewsAtheismTheoryAmountMetsTraditionFundamentalsPositive AtheismGuidesGenuineAllegianceScientismNatural SciencePrimacy Book:Atheism and Theism Source: Atheism and Theism