I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.
Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations - mandatory ones - issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if you know how to do it, is immediate.
You cannot attain # mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do
Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether
The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there is also no authority in the tradition for any individual to take things into his own hands and impose their version of the religion on someone else.
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
Tradition is a very powerful force.
Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
In Celan's words a Jew is "a man with a little book under the shoulder. " We are the keepers of tradition.
Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
You can't go back. I know that. But you can look back.
Waiting for someone to propose to you only passes the "Really, it's tradition!" sniff test when both of you think it's the man's job to propose and both of you think that's awesome.
I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.