“When the Canadian confederation took place in 1867, a lot of people in Quebec said, 'Could we have a referendum?' They said, 'Oh, no. In the British tradition, the Parliament can do anything, excluding changing a man into a woman, and, therefore, no referendum' - and that was that.” PeopleMenSaidCan DoTraditionBritishThey SaidParliamentQuebecReferendumsConfederation Author:Jacques Parizeau
“I think 'tradition' is in the past - and how can someone really 'fear' a color? A man may prefer navy to turquoise, but a self assured man could wear any color and he knows that. It's a distinction of confidence.” ThinkingKnowsMenMaySelfPastColorTraditionDistinctionAssuredNavyTurquoise Author:Jean Pigozzi
“I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.” ThinkingMenNeedsMindKindSportsHe ManTraditionGlamourSkatingSparkle Author:Kristi Yamaguchi
“Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.” MenReasonChristModernMankindLonelinessCryPridePureIntellectualConscienceTraditionEmptyClaimsPrejudiceIntuitionVanitySatanWildernessLive ByArrogantTemptedDeprivedWisestModern ManWitheredExpanseWasteland Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
“Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.” IfsKnowsMenTraditionProgressiveAncestor Author:Walter Lippmann
“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
“The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.” MenDoeEarthLawTurnsCausesNaturalSunHonorBirdTraditionTrapsNatural Law Author:Khalil Gibran
“The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.” MenWritingCountryWholeFeelingsOrderLiteratureExistenceGenerationsTraditionHistoricalBonesSimultaneousIndividual Talent Book:The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays
“To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.” MenWorldMindGovernmentReligionReligiousFreedomFamilyAchieveTraditionPrejudiceLoyaltyPropagandaNationalismRemoveNew WorldIndividualismElitesDogmaPsychiatristNew World OrderWorld OrderWorld GovernmentNwoOne World GovernmentNew GovernmentAnti ReligionReligious DogmaFamily TraditionAnti Patriotism Author:Brock Chisholm