Leo I Quotes

I transmit but do not create. I place my trust in the teachings of antiquity.

Religious scholars, marginalized by modernization, seek to assert their own relevance by insisting on orthodoxy.

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

Mr. Romney is quick to uphold rules great and small. During primary debates, when his rivals spoke out of turn or exceeded their allotted time, he would sometimes lecture them. When supporters ask Mr. Romney to sign dollar bills or American flags, he refuses and often gives them a little lesson about why doing so is against the law.

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

I am a believer and a conformist.

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

The great wisdom of the world comes from the very old.

Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.

Be skeptical, question authority, be a rebel. Do not conform and don’t be ordinary. Remember, all human progress is the result of far-sighted people challenging orthodoxy, tradition and rich, powerful, vested interests.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.

I just love tradition.

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

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.

Believe, obey, fight.

Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.