Habits Quote by Thomas L. Friedman

In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein."…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There is an old Arab Bedouin saying: I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my…

— Nafisa Haji

“There are those who think the desert has been dealt so severe and desiccated a hand by nature that it cannot be rendered more…

— Gary J. George

“There is nothing more potentially hostile than the indigenous ego interpreting the laws of his conqueror upon his own people”

— Domingo Martinez

“Rarely will two or three tribes confer to repulse a common danger. Accordingly they fight individually and are collectively conquered.”

— Tacitus

“desert kept a still tongue, and when”

— David L. Robbins

“Except in geographical scale, tribal warfare could be and often was total war in every modern sense. Like states and empires, smaller societies can…

— Lawrence H. Keeley

“I did not want to have a descendent to recite an elegy one day for me in the desert.” “What’s that?” “I wouldn’t have…

— Ibrahim al-Koni

“It was the first time the features and formative processes of the desert had made me pause and absorb just how small and brave…

— Aron Ralston

“[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given…

— Brandon Sanderson

One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes on…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it…

— T. E. Lawrence