{"quotes":[{"text":"The past informs the present.","author":"Fennel Hudson","tags":["customs","heritage","inherit","learn","past","present","tradition"],"id":5284,"author_id":"Fennel+Hudson"},{"text":"When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["culture","heritage","originality","reject","rejection","tree"],"id":9497,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.","author":"Chögyam Trungpa","tags":["acceptance","background","confidence","cultivation","development","enlightenment","heritage","humanity","humans","life","mankind","original-sin","origins","pride","progress","sentient-beings","shame","truth"],"id":14770,"author_id":"Ch%C3%B6gyam+Trungpa"},{"text":"The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.","author":"Bill Bryson","tags":["distraction","heritage","legacy","materialism"],"id":19029,"author_id":"Bill+Bryson"},{"text":"If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.","author":"Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis","tags":["heritage","legacy","parenting","priorities"],"id":19162,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Kennedy+Onassis"},{"text":"Good wombs have borne bad sons.'-- (Miranda, I:2).","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["character","descent","heritage","mothers","sons","the-tempest"],"id":19993,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens.","author":"Nicholas Dawidoff","tags":["community","heritage","legacy"],"id":22360,"author_id":"Nicholas+Dawidoff"},{"text":"Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.","author":"Fennel Hudson","tags":["age","customs","heritage","old-fashioned","past","timeless"],"id":24071,"author_id":"Fennel+Hudson"},{"text":"The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so widely used that sections in them became part of the national language. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of an elite New York family, schooled by private tutors, had been raised on the same textbooks as the children of Ohio farmers, Chicago tradesman, and New England fishermen. If you want to know what constituted being a good American from the mid-nineteenth century to World War I, spend a few hours browsing through the sections in the McGuffey Readers.","author":"Charles Murray","tags":["culture","education","heritage","literature"],"id":25554,"author_id":"Charles+Murray"},{"text":"We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hoarding of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better — in other wordsa complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark powers.The common ground of both Capitalism and Socialism is a materialistic view of life and being. Materialism in its war with the Spirit has taken on many forms; some have promoted its goals with great subtlety, whilst others have done so with an alarming lack of subtlety, but all have added, in greater or lesser measure, to the growing misery of Mankind. The forms which have done the most damage in our time may be enumerated as: Freemasonry, Liberalism, Nihilism, Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism, Imperialism, Anarchism, Modernism and the New Age.","author":"Seyyed Hossein Nasr","tags":["heritage","materialism-versus-spiritualism","traditions","values"],"id":26868,"author_id":"Seyyed+Hossein+Nasr"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":114,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}