Tribal Quotes

154 Tribal quotes by 137 unique authors

People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of… — Robert Coover
The crossing of space ... may do much to turn men's minds outwards and away from their present tribal squabbles. In this sense, the rocket,… — Arthur C. Clarke
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost… — Khaled Hosseini
In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it. — Julius Nyerere
The underlying foundation of all religion is performance - whether it's a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead… — Steve McVey
And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his… — Plato
I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years,… — Rutherford B. Hayes
There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality… — Richard Blumenthal
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and… — Boris Johnson
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events… — Edward Sapir
It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. — Ayn Rand
Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no… — Ayn Rand
We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe. — Caroline Myss
If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For… — Brian Swimme
I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people. — William P. Young
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure,… — Joseph Campbell
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike… — William Robertson Smith
I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded… — James Lovelock
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. — Joseph O'Connor
There is a still place, a gap between the worlds, spoken by the tribal knowings of thousands of years. In it are silent flyings that… — Linda Hogan
The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably… — Varg Vikernes
It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and… — Story Musgrave
Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous… — Bryan Fischer
Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok… — Julian Lennon

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