#tradition

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#role-of-women #tradition #men

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#holocaust #jewish #jewish-tradition #jews #men

The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #art-books #beauty #communities #creativity

[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during the modern period assumes that shared or collective values and systems of meaning are necessarily repressive and incapable of generating new insight or grounding creative praxis. ↗

— Grant H. Kester

#art-history #assumptions #avant-garde #fallacy #meaning

Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#tradition #reason

What history can do is show that people have to take responsibility for what they activate out of their tradition. It’s not just a given thing one slavishly follows. You have to be accountable. ↗

— Karen L. King

#history #religion #traditions #religion

And," Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, "it's tradition for new arrivals to help with the pep rally." Brooklyn quirked her lips in doubt. "Tradition?" "It's a new tradition," Amber shot back. "Clearly the deeper meaning of the word has escaped you. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#lol #tradition #death

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. ↗

— Hans Bender

#forms #free #new #open #probability

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece. ↗

— David Bowie

#amazes #analyze #even #intelligent #intelligent people

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#few #i #interested #irish #music