“There actually had been a tradition within English music of the '60s of people looking eastwards, maybe in quite a naïve way, but nonetheless, you had musicians like George Harrison or Bryan Jones recording the musicians of Joujouka in North Africa.” PeopleWayMusicianTraditionBryanNorth AfricaEnglish Music Author:Justin Adams
“There's a long-term tradition of white supremacy in this country. [Donald] Trump isn't something entirely new. But then there is the crisis for white supremacy in this country now where you have people of color standing up for themselves in ways that they've never stood up for themselves or at least standing up for themselves in a generational, novel way.” PeopleWayLongCountryTermWhiteNovelColorTrumpStandingTraditionCrisisLong TermWhite SupremacySupremacyStood Up Author:Junot Diaz
“I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not reverse Roe v. Wade, that we stand up against Citizens United, we stand up for the rights of people in the workplace, that we stand up and basically say: The Supreme Court should represent all of us. That's how I see the court, and the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on behalf of our rights as Americans.” PeopleFeelsShouldKindImportantCountryWould BeUnitedPowerfulRightsCitizensStandingTraditionCourtSupremeOur CountryReverseWorkplaceSupreme CourtBehalfWadeMarriage EqualityRoe V WadeCitizens UnitedUnited We Stand Author:Hillary Clinton
“Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights and workers rights.” PeopleRightsEconomicStandingTraditionWorkersAfrican AmericanWorkers Rights Author:Jill Stein
“I think there's a great storytelling tradition in the restaurant business that tends to attract people with an oral tradition of bulls - ting and bollocking. Creative people, people for whom the 9-to-5 world is not attractive or impossible. It seems that way. There are a lot of stories in the business, and a lot of characters - and it seems to attract its share of artists and writers and people who hope to do something creative in their lives.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayCharacterStoriesSeemsArtistCreativeImpossibleShareTraditionStorytellingAttractiveRestaurantsBullsCreative PeopleArtists And WritersOral TraditionRestaurant Business Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.” PeopleWayFoundDadTraditionMy DadCaringEducatedThoughtfulPsychiatry Author:Peter Breggin
“The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the "mainstream" so to speak, which give us reason to think that the tradition is nowhere near as doctrinally narrow as the so-called "Five Points of Calvinism" might lead one to believe.” PeopleThinkingGivingShouldFirstsBelieveBookReasonMightSpeakPayAttentionCasesFiveCrazyResourcesTraditionDeeperArguingSavingPay AttentionMainstreamGlancesMarginsCrazy ThingsCalvinism Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great Tradition, you end up scaring people who call 1950 America "traditional" Christianity. It is just what they are used to in their one limited lifetime.” PeopleKnowsLittlesEndsWholeAmericaUsedChristianityTraditionLifetimeTraditionalInvoke Author:Richard Rohr
“I do not think that my spiritual apprehensions are as dogmatically cultural as those of many people who have been brought up strictly in a particular tradition.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensSpiritualParticularTraditionApprehension Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“The Greek people not only relate to the ancient traditions, they have fought, they have shed blood, until recently, to defend the values of democracy and freedom.” PeopleValuesDemocracyBloodTraditionAncientRelateGreekShed Author:Alexis Tsipras
“People love the traditional pantomimes and I don't think we need to disregard that tradition.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTraditionTraditionalDisregardPantomime Author:Clive Rowe
“Before people outside of the Western European tradition started asking to be in there, the people who were accumulating objects for the museum were perfectly satisfied with the narrative they were constructing.” PeopleObjectsTraditionAskingWesternSatisfiedNarrativeMuseums Author:Kerry James Marshall
“If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.” PeopleIfsTryingInterestActingLibertyWillingBalanceModelsTraditionMethodWesternContraryAlternativesExtrasWestern Society Author:Edward Snowden
“I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.” PeopleKnowsTradition Author:Maxine Waters
“Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.” PeopleStrongSpeechTraditionChinaReputationSpiteRepublicFree SpeechHong Kong Author:Edward Snowden
“I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMayMeanFightingClassMiddleCommitmentTraditionMiddle ClassWorking ClassMiddle Class Family Author:Caroline Kennedy
“The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!” PeopleStatesStrongBlackVoiceRightsHeardMovementRedTraditionSouthActivismCivil RightsActivistVery StrongCivil Rights Movement Author:John Darnielle
“My concern is to develop a North American type of anarchism that comes out of the American tradition, or that at least can be communicated to Americans and that takes into consideration that Americans are not any longer people of European background.” PeopleTypeConcernTraditionBackgroundsConsiderationAnarchismAmerican Tradition Author:Murray Bookchin
“I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoImportantCountryUseLawCommunityResultsViolenceStreetsCitizensGunTraditionIllegalHuntingOwnershipAbidingUsageSportsmanshipHandgunsLaw Abiding CitizenGun Ownership Author:Barack Obama
“We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.” PeopleThinkingGunTraditionThoughtfulReasonableAmendmentsGun ControlSecond Amendment Author:Barack Obama
“A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.” PeopleChurchReligiousDealsTraditionResponsibleScandalReligious TraditionsWhittling Author:C. S. Lewis
“When you ban people from predominantly Muslim countries from coming into the U.S., even people who accompanied our soldiers and helped them on the battlefield, but you say, "But, of course, there's gonna be an exception if you're a religious minority," - OK, so that means Christians, there will be a different rule applied to Christians from these countries than others - that's a religious test. And that is completely contrary to our national traditions.” PeopleIfsMeanDifferentCountryChristianCoursesReligiousTraditionTestsSoldierContraryMinoritiesExceptionBattlefieldsBans Author:Tim Kaine
“I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its worst traditions. But all the more reason, therefore, to resist their aggression and take it seriously.” PeopleKnowsBelieveReasonWorstTraditionRussiaAggressionDoomed Author:Daniel Fried
“If we look at the last decades, we see that the US rightist-fundamentalist alliance demonized partnership-oriented families and painted women's rights as a threat to "tradition" - which of course it is to traditions of domination. These people had an integrated political agenda that recognizes that a "traditional" authoritarian, male dominated, punitive family is foundational to an authoritarian, male dominated, punitive politics. We can see this connection in sharp relief in brutal top-down regimes, be they secular like Nazi Germany or religious like ISIS in the Middle East.” PeopleIfsLooksLastsPoliticalCoursesReligiousRightsMiddleTraditionConnectionsThreatMalesEastDecadesTraditionalGermanyReliefAgendasRegimesMiddle EastPartnershipBrutalSecularWomens RightsNaziDominationIsisAlliancesIntegratedFundamentalistNazi GermanyTop DownPolitical Agendas Author:Riane Eisler
“When people give up sex and give up love or they only have love in the context of tradition then I think we're missing the opportunity of saying to each other building community, building desire in community gives all of us the possibility of learning how to be who we always were terrified we'd find out we were, and then not be ashamed of it and to not have our desire and our love embedded in shame is a profound thing and it's part of what drives the movement.” PeopleThinkingGivingDesireOpportunitySexCommunityMissingMovementPossibilityBuildingGiving UpTraditionShameProfoundAshamedTerrifiedOur LoveEmbeddedCommunity BuildingBuilding Community Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“The Freudian tradition will never completely die because it has a few good points. For example, people have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Most of cognitive therapy has now adopted a similar idea. On the other hand, the relationship part of psychoanalysis - where you must have a deep, emotional relationship with the client - will, I think, get kicked in the teeth one of these days.” PeopleThinkingIdeasHandsDiesExampleEmotionalTraditionTeethThese DaysTherapyMotiveClientsAdoptedPsychoanalysisCognitiveCognitive TherapyDeep EmotionalEmotional Relationship Author:Albert Ellis
“There's a lot of good people out here that want to help you grow and to help the music to continue to grow and evolve and go find those folks and be around them and carry it on... carrying the tradition on in the way with what it is that you have to offer. Find some good people in the music that will believe in you and they'll help you do that.” PeopleWayWantBelieveHelpingGrowsOffersTraditionFolksEvolveGood PeopleBelieve In You Author:Jon Gordon
“For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite interesting how frequently people want to write their own story. Sometimes it is straight history - this is how we came about, how our town was created, a lot of that kind of effort, as soon as literacy came. The first thing you wanted to do was to put something down about who you are or how you are related to you neighbors. Then the next stage would be the stories, the cultural part of the story: this is the kind of world our ancestors made or aspired to.” PeopleWorldWantWritingFirstsKindMadeSometimesStoriesWould BeWantedReadingNextInterestingEffortStageTraditionExcitingTownsWho You AreNeighborRelatedComing OutAncestorLiteracyReading And WritingOur TownOral Tradition Author:Chinua Achebe
“You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.” PeopleIfsWellsChildrenUseCoursesTraditionMercyAssumingAffectionObligationMy ChildrenGrantsWornAnalogiesForbearanceI Love My ChildrenLove My Children Author:Wendell Berry
“In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in. It's worked, up until now. Now these papers can't afford it. They always had minuscule ad budgets, and now the things which people probably read these papers for are gone.” PeopleWorldLongAmericaGoneColorPaperTraditionSellsNewspapersComicBudgetsAdsPapersComic Strips Author:Ben Katchor
“Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.” PeopleIfsThinkingDoeStatesSportsUnitedUnited StatesWrittenExampleElementsTraditionConservativeMexicoBowlsUnfairContestsSpainSuper BowlBullfighting Author:Bette Ford
“I think my criticism of the Pentecostal tradition that I heard with my sister's church was that it wasn't always audible. You couldn't quite figure out what was going on. And then, the people would very often do what they call speaking in tongues and I didn't know what they were saying. My father used to always say that if it can't be understood, then it's not the good news or not the gospel.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsUsedFatherChurchHeardFiguresNewsUnderstoodTraditionCriticismTongueMy SisterGood NewsPentecostalSpeaking In Tongues Author:David C. Driskell
“I often say that I'm a Buddhist-Episcopalian. I say that partly to annoy people.I like to annoy people who think that a religion can contain the whole truth. No religion, it seems to me, contains the whole truth. I think it's mad to think that there is nothing to learn from other traditions and civilizations. If you accept that other religions have something to offer and you learn from them, that is what you become: a Buddhist-Episcopalian or a Hindu-Muslim or whatever.” PeopleIfsThinkingWholeSeemsAcceptingCivilizationOffersTraditionMadBuddhistAnnoyingWhole TruthEpiscopalians Author:Ninian Smart
“I didn't think that at the beginning. I just wanted to have a garden and a farm and have animals around me. But I do think there's a craving for people to feel a connection. Honestly, it's building on an immigrant tradition, where you bring your country to America. You bring your seeds from Italy. My neighbors are Vietnamese, so they're growing their herbs and stuff that they miss from Vietnam.” PeopleThinkingCountryAnimalMissingBuildingGardenTraditionNeighborHonestlyCraving Author:Novella Carpenter
“When you dig down, people are pretty progressive, by and large. I guess, I've said it many times - that a lot of people say we're a conservative country, that people are conservative. And my response to that is, yes, that's true, and you know what the people want to conserve most? The progressive traditions of our country - freedom of speech, and of the press and of assembly. Freedom to dissent. The freedom to practice your own religion or not practice religion as you see fit. Yes, we're conservative! We want to conserve those.” PeopleCountryFitTraditionResponseConservativeProgressiveFreedom Of SpeechDissent Author:Tom Harkin
“I use are provisional terms, and they usually put any proper nouns in critical distance. I'm in a tradition of people who resist naming, fixity. That means it's a tradition of people who insist on mobility, who defy proper nouns and genres and those kinds of things. When I push back against the word 'jazz' it's because I've learned that from many, many elders who think that way. I'm not just being a jerk.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanTermTraditionDistanceJerk Author:Vijay Iyer
“Each generation is tough! I'm still learning my generation. The desire to connect has to be present and evident. My generation thrives off of transparency and we can see through inauthenticity. On the contrary, we cling to what is real and genuine. While tradition and customs are important in their place, it's also important to be able to meet people where they are and speak their language a little bit. If this isn't done, you'll have a very difficult time connecting with young people.” PeopleImportantRealDoneDesireSpeakLanguageDifficultToughTraditionThriveDifficult TimesTransparency Author:Kierra Kiki Sheard
“Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going to go away? Because there are people whose personalities and gifts, and interests and soul, are simply immersed in living this kind of a spiritual lifestyle. That only makes sense. If you can live an artistic lifestyle, why can't somebody live a spiritual lifestyle? We've always, in every single great tradition, had a percentage of the population that stands in the middle of us being the beacon that calls us to realize that the spiritual life is an essential part of every life.” PeopleKindDifferentSoulSpiritualInterestRealizingReligiousPersonalityTraditionLifestyleArtisticMake SenseGoing AwaySpiritual LifeReligious Life Author:Joan D. Chittister
“There are hard texts in each tradition which we must confront and ask ourselves, 'Can we reinterpret those texts to allow us to live peaceably, and respectfully, with people of other faiths?' That is a job only Jews can do for Judaism, only Christians can do for Christianity, and only Muslims can do for Islam. But sometimes the sight of someone in one faith wrestling with that faith can empower you to wrestle with another faith.” PeopleSometimesChristianChristianityTraditionIslamJewEmpoweringWrestlingJudaism Author:Jonathan Sacks
“I have this very kind of like heterodox idea of what an education is, what underpins identity. I don't think I'm very easily pigeon holed in any of those boxes, so I confront this. I have a staff full of young people who came up in a very different tradition and who feel very fired up about the big identity battles. I listen and I try to navigate them, but I don't find them mapping onto my life in a personal way which is, which is hard.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentIdentityBattleTradition Author:Lydia Polgreen
“There's definitely a melancholic ingredient in our concerts in the United States versus in other places. Many times people feel far away from their place of origin, from their traditions, from their people. And in a way, Café Tacvba's music brings them memories. It seems to connect them with all that they miss, because the concerts are very emotive and have lots of energy. We're very fortunate to have our music connect in that way.” PeopleEnergyMemoriesMissingTraditionFar Away Author:Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega
“Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.” PeopleThinkingCountryTraditionWesternGladBelongingGlobalization Author:David Brooks
“People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.” PeopleThinkingSpiritualBrainDutyIntellectualTraditionLoyaltyFaithfulBelongingInfidelityFidelity Author:Bernard-Henri Levy
“Our contexts are foreign. They derive from church tradition that is thousands of years removed from the people who wrote Scripture and the audience to whom those people wrote.” PeopleChurchAudienceTraditionScripture Author:Michael S. Heiser
“I connect with techno way more than house. I find it frustrating people call me a house artist because I think my music in general is more in the tradition of techno. House is celebratory and extroverted. I don't connect with that sentiment.” PeopleThinkingArtistHouseTraditionCall MeSentimentsFrustrating Author:Galcher Lustwerk
“First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what. All the kids, all the girls they had already seen that and knew that from their family, and I would say, "What are you talking about, what's that?" It's not my world. My grandparents were very well-educated people, but in the Jewish tradition. They knew everything about the Bible.” PeopleWorldKidsSchoolGirlTraditionEducatedGrandparentGreece Author:Chantal Akerman
“Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.” PeopleRealCultureTraditionNativeAmerican IndianCherokee Author:Joseph Bruchac
“I love the idea of carrying on some kind of tradition using some of the artifacts from people that touched my life. They're a continuum, too. I still use my father's tools and some of my grandfather's tools. There's a very romantic streak in me. I confess, I'm a romantic, but I like the idea.” PeopleKindTraditionVery Romantic Author:Michael C. McMillen
“I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.” PeopleWritingImportantBlackSurvivalTraditionBlack PeopleVoodoo Author:Jesmyn Ward
“I may love individual people, but I am contemptuous of the arrogance , and in a way, it's both ruined me and fuels me. It's ruined me because nobody cares about these issues, and then it's the source of most of my storytelling now, because I am so preoccupied with it. It fuels me, because this is my outrage. I do believe in that great tradition of literature and storytelling. You know, the downfall and the folly of it all.” PeopleBelieveCareLiteratureIndividualTraditionStorytellingArroganceDownfallNobody Cares Author:Larry Fessenden