Ashton Sanders Quotes

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

The people I grew up around, almost all of them had been born and raised in the South. And, you know, they didn't always go to church, but they lived their lives as if God were watching everything they did.

I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Conventionality is not morality.

Americans use custom, more than written law, to enforce virtue

It's very much simpler to get rid of any written rule you choose than it is an item of customary morality... while laws are preserved on tablets of wood or stone, customary morality is engraved deep in our living souls

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

Like, in Asian culture, you have to be down with the family. You have to be down with all the crazy traditional or non-traditional things we do.

I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always been struggling to come to terms with archaic traditions.

All we have and are is based on the Christian faith, which has shaped law, government, morals, music, landscape, and education here for a thousand years.

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.

Culture' and 'cult' derive from the same word; what a culture worships defines it.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.

I asked my mother, 'Why shouldn't I act?' She said, 'Nobody in the family has acted, so why should you?'

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

Race does not come into it. It is pure religion and culture. Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam. That would have been a fair comparison.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.