Clans Quotes

103 quotes by 63 authors

If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you… — Laozi
Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze… — Nelson Algren
The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are the… — Sun Yat-sen
Tribes will be defined by social enclaves on the internet, rather than by geography or kinship, but the world will be more fragmented and less… — Jim Horning
The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is… — Winston Churchill
Fhairshon swore a feud Against the clan M,Tavish; Marched into their land To murder and to rafish; For he did resolve To extirpate the vipers,… — William Edmondstoune Aytoun
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of… — Sinclair Lewis
Ah, how lucky are the lieutenants, the six-foot Junkers, and all the rest of the Don Juan clan!... The bookworm, be he ever so decent… — Theodor Fontane
As you get older, you have your tribe of women that you grow and age gracefully with and you share wisdom with. That's your clan.… — Sheryl Crow
In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place… — John Thorn
The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is… — Criss Jami
Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called… — Sebastian Junger
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. — Stanislav Grof
The success of the Rat Pack or the Clan was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and… — Sammy Davis, Jr.
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood… — Charles Alexander Eastman
The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage… — Charles Alexander Eastman
I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a… — Penn Jillette
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had… — T.E. Lawrence
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to… — Camille Paglia
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up,… — Chaim Potok

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