Traditional Quotes - Page 4

• Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

  Luce Irigaray

  Respect, Tolerance, Desire

  Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• ... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge body of traditional knowledge, accurate and inaccurate together, there would be nothing even to correct. Progress is not made in spite of authority, but by means of it.

  Margaret Benson

  Mean, Together, Progress

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”

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• Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Class, Down And, Rich

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• Self-censorship, the most important and most successful form of censorship, is rampant. Debate is identified with dissent, which is in turn identified with disloyalty. There is a widespread feeling that, in this new, open-ended emergency, we may not be able to 'afford' our traditional freedoms.

  Susan Sontag

  Successful, Self, Feelings

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.152, Macmillan

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• The traditional metaphor for a spiritual investigation is that of the voyage or the journey. From this image I must dissociate myself. I do not consider myself a voyager, I have preferred to stand still.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Journey, Voyages

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. ... may we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities?

  Jane Addams

  Cities, May, Corporations

  Jane Addams, Berenice A. Carroll, Clinton F. Fink (1907). “Newer Ideals of Peace”, p.101, University of Illinois Press

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• The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

  Hannah Arendt

  Years, Way, Convincing

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Synthesis, Kingdoms

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.32, Beacon Press

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• Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

  Jane Fonda

  Light, Leaving, Female

  "Jane Fonda on Men, Power and Plastic Surgery". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2007.

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• I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

  Charlie Watts

  Dresses, Stylist, Embarrassed

  "Charlie Watts's Guide to Dressing Like a Gentleman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the wheels of our automobiles and so we have a completely different kind of thing where we have four independent intelligent wheels rather than a traditional internal combustion engine and power train and so on.

  William J. Mitchell

  Independent, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A junkie will steal your wallet and then help you look for it. But ultimately I think all addictions boil down to just not being able to be with yourself for any long degree of time.

  Jerry Stahl

  Thinking, Differences, Addiction

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• Movies, far more than the traditional arts, are tied to big money. Without a few independent critics, there's nothing between the public and the advertisers.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Independent, Bigs

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• Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Media, Differences

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• Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.

  Dervla Murphy

  Home, Loss, Occupation

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• As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

  Margaret Halsey

  Communication, Culture, Inferiority

  Margaret Halsey (1964). “The Corrupted Giant: A Speculation on American Politics and Morals”

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• The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Mean, Nwo, People

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• Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.

  Alva Myrdal

  Family, Home, Simple

  Alva Myrdal, Viola Klein (1968). “Women's two roles: home and work”, Routledge & Kegan Paul Books

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• It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Children, Parent, Literature

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• For me, I think being a conservative means you are focused on all four key principles: strong defense, lower taxes, less spending, and defending traditional American values.

  Jim Jordan

  Strong, Mean, Thinking

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• It's heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It's a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.

  Mick Jagger

  People, Return, Band

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• I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

  Mick Jagger

  Ties, Singers, Too Much

  "The Rolling Stone Interview: Jagger Remembers". Interview with Jann S. Wenner, www.jannswenner.com. December 14, 1995.

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• I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

  Michel Gondry

  Technology, Use, Method

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Tourists who go to Africa have more of a traditional experience than Africans do. A tourist goes on safari; Africans don't.

  Paul Theroux

  Goes On, Tourists, Safari

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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