“Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.” IfsResponsibilityAcceptingAudienceKingsExpectationsTraditionWeightEnormousConcertsTangibleAttendingCrimsonKing Crimson Author:Robert Fripp
“There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.” SpiritualPoliticalBlackChurchLeaderKingsGayTraditionProfoundActivismRhetoricHostileLutherStaturePolitical RhetoricProfound Spiritual Author:Camille Paglia
“The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.” PeopleLanguageKingsTraditionRemainsGreek Author:J. B. Bury
“The rights of Englishmen are derived from God, not from king or Parliament, and would be secured by the study of history, law, and tradition.” Would BeLawLibertyStudyRightsKingsTraditionParliamentEnglishmenSecured Author:John Adams
“The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings. At issue was the fundamental question of whether men's rights were God-given or whether these rights were to be dispensed by governments to their subjects. This document proclaimed that all men have certain inalienable rights. In other words, these rights came from God.” MenLongGodGovernmentPoliticalCertainGivenMoralIssuesRightsSubjectsDivineKingsTraditionIndependenceFundamentalsHuman RightsRebellionJustificationDocumentsDeclarationDeclaration Of IndependenceProclaimingInalienable RightsDivine RightFavor Of GodDivine Right Of Kings Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.” PeopleKindDonePowerfulKingsTraditionAbandonRulersThings DoneBenevolentShambhala Author:Sakyong Mipham
“The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."” MenYearsTodayPastStrongChallengesRightsSubjectsCenturyMovementKingsNewsHundredTraditionEnvironmentalProgressivePartnershipGood NewsConquestDominationShiftingOver The Past18th CenturyYear OneProgressive Movement Author:Riane Eisler