Tribal Quotes

154 Tribal quotes by 137 unique authors

No one writes better historical fiction than Steven Pressfield. The Afghan War that was waged by Alexander the Great 2000 years ago is eerily similar… — Vince Flynn
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. — Marshall McLuhan
It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying… — Natalie Goldberg
I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing… — Laurel Burch
It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a… — Eric Hoffer
No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily… — Muriel Spark
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and… — Ezra Pound
There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan. — Leon Panetta
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and… — Cat Power
In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe… — Arthur Keith
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to… — Arthur Keith
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a… — Arthur Keith
Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah,… — Manolo Blahnik
Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological… — Jim Goad
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. — Sherman Alexie
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes… — Peter Guber
Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree. — Jonathan Haidt
Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. — Irena Sendler
My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces.… — Robert Bateman
Where there has been racial hatred, it must be ended. Where there has been tribal animosity, it will be finished. Let us not dwell upon… — Jomo Kenyatta
What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war… — Glenn Greenwald
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. — Mason Cooley
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying… — Mitch Daniels
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing… — Colin Farrell

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