Tribes Quotes
371 quotes by 295 authors
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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
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When a nation forgets her skill in war, when her religion becomes a mockery, when the whole nation becomes a nation of money-grabbers, then the…
— Robert E. Howard
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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
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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
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Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this…
— Maya Beiser
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For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.
— Eric Whitacre
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
— Iqbal Quadir
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Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
— Vladimir Putin
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes…
— Bayard Taylor
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Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god and…
— Stephen Kinzer
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During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan…
— Stephen Kinzer
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Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of…
— John James Audubon
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Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and…
— Robert Reich
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Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.
— Ricardo Salinas Pliego
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All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.
— William C. Bryant
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All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another.
— Hiawatha
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All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve,…
— George Crook
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