Tribes Quotes

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

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 no concept of a criminal state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal activity.

I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.

I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.

Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Strike an enemy once and for all. Let him cease to exist as a tribe or he will live to fly in your throat again.

Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his Fatherland as well as Holyland, i.e. the land of the origin of his religion... Consequently the so-called aboriginal or hill tribes also are Hindus: because India is their Fatherland as well as their Holyland of whatever form of religion or worship they follow.

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I'm a good example of a human being and of my tribe.

The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is - One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.

Tribes must be our homes, not our prisons.

Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.

We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.