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.
Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten
With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
There has been a strong tradition in this country that it is not the function of the military to educate the public on political issues.
Italian style for me is to have a sense of tradition, respect for one's roots, and a sartorial approach.
I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.
I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are. . . Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.
The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.
Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.
Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.
The yoga tradition asserts that lasting happiness is dependent on prospering both materially and spiritually.
One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. Books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. They just wrote. . . and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.
I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.
Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.
I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.
Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.
Tradition has made women cowardly.
In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan. . . . now enter Maia Sharp.