Darren Dowden

“Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.”
― J. Krishnamurti

“Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy