A Quote by Mary Doria Russell

Tradition was safety; change was danger.

Mary Doria Russell

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Change Danger Safety Tradition

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Mary Doria Russell
American - Novelist
Born: August 19, 1950

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

Ernest Hemingway

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.

Rush Limbaugh

If the idea that my safety can only be enhanced by putting other people's privacy and safety in danger, then I don't want to be more safe.

Shepard Fairey

The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

Octavio Paz

The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to the establishment.

Timothy Leary

By looking at the difference between perceived danger and actual danger, you can fundamentally change your reaction.

Chris Hadfield

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Henry George

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

Prince Philip

Safety's just danger, out of place.

Harry Connick, Jr.

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

James Hillman

He is the furthest from danger, who is on his guard even when in safety.

Publilius Syrus

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Publilius Syrus

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

William Shakespeare

It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better.