Walter Rauschenbusch Quotes

I do not innovate. I transmit.

The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

Since I was 9, I'd been told what to say, what to think.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

… a country's laws are written upon paper, and that its customs are engraved upon brass. One may play with the one, but not with the other. It is less risky for a stranger to dance upon our Constitution in the public square than to affront one of our solidified customs. The one is merely eminently respectable, the other is sacred.

The child of three or four is saturated with adult rules. His universe is dominated by the idea that things are as they ought to be, that everyone's actions conform to laws that are both physical and moral - in a word, that there is a Universal Order.

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity's faith later.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

We limit ourselves. We're told to act and behave in certain way from birth.

I'm as old-school as it gets in this modern era. I'm the last of a dying breed.

We as parents, and the control culture, it is our responsibility to make sure we give the right perceived norms and the right cultural conditions.

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.

It's a primitive thing, kings and queens.

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.

When it comes to our cultural values, I would love to hold on to the past because Nokia had some of the best spirit ever. Having grown up in the company, I loved it for the value and culture, which matched my own.

My family brainwashed me, like I'm brainwashing my children. They brainwashed me with good taste.

My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.

Even though my parents raised me in a very individualistic way, they were also strict and traditional, which was good. It was hard to sneak out! I think I was quite wild, but in some ways quite contained.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

Our children must follow in our footsteps; after all, we are older and know about the world.