Sarah Gavron Quotes

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

If only I had some grease I could fix some kind of a light," Ma considered. "We didn't lack for light when I was a girl before this newfangled kerosene was ever heard of." "That's so," said Pa. "These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraph and kerosene and coal stoves--they're good things to have, but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear.

I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.'

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.