Tribes Quotes

• We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

  Dirk Wittenborn

  People, Mets

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Progress Of Society

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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

  Seth Godin

  Greatness, Our Lives

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.3, Penguin

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

  Diana L. Eck

  People, Challenges

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

  Ella Maillart

  Simple, Appreciate, Literature

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• 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

  Our World, Numbers, People

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• So many of us feel like we're misfits until we finally find our tribe - the other people who are are strange in the same way - and suddenly everything clicks.

  Jenny Lawson

  People, Way, Strange

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

  Jasmine Guy

  Friendship, Country, Family Love

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

  Helen Keller

  Age, Maldives, Optimist

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.134, Matthew Gordon

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  Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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

  Tecumseh

  Makers, Fortune, My Own

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  I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, Wish, Rifles

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

  Seth Godin

  Leader, Helping, Position

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.17, Penguin

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• No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.

  Tecumseh

  Country, Children, Native American

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• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

  Tecumseh

  Summer, Powerful, Native American

  Quoted in Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)

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• I am one of the last of a small tribe of troubadours, who still believe that life is a beautiful and exciting journey with a purpose and grace which are well worth singing about.

  Yip Harburg

  Beautiful, Believe, Journey

  "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Scott Jacobs, The Week Behind, September 23, 2009.

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• You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.

  Seth Godin

  Unhappy, Enough Time, Painful

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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• 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

  Uprising, Enemy, Rebel

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• If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

  Peter Singer

  Members, Go Back In Time, Concerned

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• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'

  Tecumseh

  Summer, Country, Giving Up

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

  Seth Godin

  Doing Nothing, Path, Common

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.59, Penguin

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• From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

  James Monroe

  Country, Lakes, Land

  James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”

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• All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

  William C. Bryant

  Death, Dying, Slumber

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

  Jim Costa

  Government, Wind, Political

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