Tribe Quotes

267 quotes by 216 authors

â€¦the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special… — Richard Dawkins
In existing criminology there are concepts: a criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal sect, and a criminal tribe; but there is… — P D Ouspensky
Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to… — Joseph Campbell
Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that… — Catherynne M. Valente
We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or… — David Platt
Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is… — Ambrose Bierce
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. — William Shakespeare
In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life-one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in… — Bill Moyers
To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it,… — Bobby Ghosh
The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must… — Felix Dennis
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. — Chief Seattle
I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month. — Lily Nicksay
I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin… — Q'orianka Kilcher
There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of… — Mustafa Akyol
Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving. — Rory Stewart
If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my… — Noam Chomsky
Universities can teach maturity. They can teach teenagers how to be adults, and that means to function outside a clique or a tribe. — Russell Smith
I found my place when I moved to London, where I chose to live, making my own tribe who were all from different backgrounds and… — Neneh Cherry
I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being… — Kathryn Lasky
An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign. — Russell Smith

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