Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Tradition has made women cowardly.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

Culture makes all men gentle.

There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

After Secretary Clinton announced in January 2010 that Internet freedom would be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy, the State Department decided to take what Clinton calls a 'venture capital' approach to the funding of tools, research, public information projects, and training.

Ways have to be found to maintain university research untramelled by requirements of forecasting application or usefulness.

Unlike many in the conservative camp, I accept theories of global warming, and accept that man-made activity has played a part in global warming. My differences have only been on what the solutions should be.

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Realistically, looks offer an advantage to an actor. I'm going to work hard to maintain my skin. I'm going to prevent aging as much as possible. And I will keep trying to become a better person on the inside as much as I spruce up the outside.

Melancholy is no bad thing.

Law will take over because law always carries with it a sense of security and manipulative power.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Your world is as big as you make it.

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.

I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.