63 Tribal Quotes for You to Enjoy

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. Hunter S. Thompson

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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences. Haile Selassie

Tribal Doors Consequences Harmful Intervention Our Ourselves Must Above Potentially Divided Open Foreign Lines Pitfalls Avoid Among

I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst. Sue Perkins

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend. Virat Kohli

Love Faith Myself People Discipline Trend Tribal Seen Subconscious Warrior Mine Honour Arm Also Because Am His Lot Left Model Getting Tattoo Tattoos Just Just Because Samurai Chinese Really Skills Who Connect Level Symbol

I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism. Sam Harris

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour. Adam Hochschild

Tribal Think Almost Almost All Instinct Aroused Makes Very Susceptible Human Buried Being Human Beings Patriotic Us Beings Profound

As a native of Parsons, Kansas, a small town near the Oklahoma border, I have a deep respect for tribal nations in Oklahoma. But this federal spending in Oklahoma is outrageous. And excessive subsidies have made the state a playground for Lifeline fraud. Ajit Pai

Respect Tribal Made State Spending Oklahoma Fraud Border Small Federal Lifeline Outrageous Excessive Federal Spending Small Town Town Subsidies Nations Native Kansas Deep Near Playground

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult. Al Stewart

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Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. If we took doctors seriously as human animals, we might hurt them - and they might hurt us - a lot less. Alice Dreger

Hurt Seriously Tribal Animals Doctors Mistakes Took Evidence Favor Gifts Small Over Biased Make Scientific Scientific Evidence Lot Susceptible Human Being Want Stories Loved Them Might Us Less Even

In tribal Botswana, I received some woven necklaces and a handmade bow with three poison arrows. It's framed and hanging on the wall in my living room and is, without a doubt, one of my favorite possessions. Andrew Zimmern

Tribal Three Poison Doubt Living Framed Possessions Favorite Woven Some Bow Without Arrows Wall Handmade Hanging Room Living Room Received

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 even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me. Cat Power

Love Me Tribal First Whatever Gone Cole Porter Hop Kinda Folk Record Classic Cab Cliched Bebop Terrifying Hip Ballads Hip-Hop Covers Gershwin Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Just Blues Even Whose Porter

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person. David Kirk

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. Edward Hirsch

Music Song Word Tribal Other Distinguished One Word Poetry Remembers Always Still Cultures Just Where Literacy Just One Them Many Origins

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. Edward Sapir

History Age Events Tribal Made Type Relative Statements Evidence Direct Personal Legends Personal Information Formal Natives Regarding Information Whether Formed Themselves Sequence Second

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911. Fidel Castro

Family Tribal Fighting Libya Born Invaded Nomadic Shepherds His Italian Paternal Died Gaddafi Against Region Them Grandfather Desert Profoundly

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone. Fiona Shaw

Loyalty Tribal Gone Seems Whole

The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns. Hanya Yanagihara

So with the young African artists. What they have to learn from tribal art is not how to copy the traditional forms, but the confidence that comes from knowing that somewhere inside them there should be the vitality which enabled their fathers to produce these extraordinary and exciting forms. Henry Moore

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers. James Wolcott

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This is a unique legal loophole in the U.S.: If a non-native comes on a reservation and commits any crime, the non-native should be prosecuted by a federal court. Tribal law can arrest and hold someone for a year, but tribal law cannot prosecute non-natives. So since the federal courts are so overloaded, some of the cases get tossed out. Jason Momoa

Legal Law Crime Tribal Year Reservation Out Tossed Some Someone Cases Federal Prosecuted Since Loophole Court Overloaded Arrest Courts Get Any Hold Cannot Should Unique

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know? Joe Morton

Music You Tribal Country Favor Classic Case Simply Toward Over Country Music Know Antipathy Unfamiliar Blues Prefer

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior. John Carmack

Best Game Entertainment Win Behavior Random Tribal Petty Everyone Worst Particular Becomes Subjective Going Just While Thing Symbol

I think youth will always be connected to the strongest music at the time because... I don't want to use the word 'tribal,' but there was this sort of familial affiliation that people would feel with the music they were listening to. John Darnielle

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