Tribes Quotes

• 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.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Men
  • Society
  • Political

• People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

  

  Asia Argento
  • People
  • Sex
  • Healthy

• There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy.

  

  Lily King
  • Tribes
  • Delicacy
  • Sepik

• Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

  

  William Bartram
  • Bird
  • Abandoned
  • Helpless

• No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Morning
  • Savage
  • Indian

• However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • May
  • Looks
  • Tribes

• Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Patience
  • Badges
  • Shylock

• "I used to think the world was broken down by tribes," I said. "By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • World
  • Broken
  • Said

• I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend From jealousy!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Jealousy

• What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Simple
  • Ideas
  • Forever

• And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

  

  Seth Godin
  • World
  • Force
  • Numbers

• Every voice doesn't matter--only the voices that move your idea forward, that make it better, that make you better, that make it more likely you will ship work that benefits your tribe.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Moving
  • Ideas
  • Voice

• I'm so sick and tired of hearing about slavery. You think slavery didn't exist in Africa? Even Indian tribes.

  

  David Duke
  • Tired
  • Sick
  • Slavery

• Since the state was dismantled in Iraq, institutions have disappeared and people have withdrawn into their clans and tribes.

  

  Ayad Allawi
  • State
  • Tribes
  • Dismantled

• Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Culture
  • Looks
  • Philosophy

• He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Enemy
  • Rebel
  • Uprising

• The cold was an enemy, yet it kept the tribes strong. The old did not suffer for long in such bitter winters. The weakling children perished quickly. His son would not be one of those.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Strong
  • Enemy
  • Cold

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • Better
  • Lives
  • Leading

• I've always loved the singing societies of the Iroquois women. They taught the young men their songs. The prohibition against women playing the drum doesn't hold true in Eastern Tribes; women are considered the back bone of the community - spiritual advisors, counselors, healers.

  

  Joanne Shenandoah
  • Women
  • Singing
  • Tribes

• The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Life
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Air
  • Land
  • Eagles

• The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Path
  • Common
  • Tribes

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