tradition Quotes

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.