Tribes Quotes - Page 14

• Civilization has not ever been the brother of equality. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

  Herman Melville

  Brother, Freedom, Civilization

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). “Mardi and a Voyage Thither: Volulme Three, Scholarly Edition”, p.527, Northwestern University Press

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• Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe.

  John Lukacs

  Years, Community, Patriotism

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• I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.

  Lisel Mueller

  Sleep, Cities, America

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• One of my recent acquisitions. It is called a medicine bag, from one of the native tribes of North America. A fascinating people, highly skilled in the use of plants' power. They too understand nature's essence as divine. So much so that they do not think it is man's place to own the land at all. Imagine that - think of all the wars we would have missed!

  Maryrose Wood

  War, Men, Thinking

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• [T]here's a genuine disconnect between the anti-choice movement and people who identify as 'pro-life' but aren't in the movement. ...[S]aying you're 'pro-life' is more about marking you as a member of a tribe, pledging fealty to your faith or to your identity as a 'conservative,' for a lot of people.

  Amanda Marcotte

  People, Choices, Pro Life

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• Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species of sharks. Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.

  Herman Melville

  War, Sharks, Sea

  Herman Melville (2015). “Annotated Moby Dick or, the Whale with English Grammar Exercises: by Herman Melville (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.438, Powell Publications, LLC

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• We are a revitalized tribe. After every major upheaval, we have been able to gather together as a people to rebuild a community and a government. Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. We are able to do that because our culture, though certainly diminished, has sustained us since time inmemorial. This Cherokee culture is a well-kept secret.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Moving, Adversity, Government

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• Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to last preserving an unbroken continuity, into the midst of high modern culture.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Humanity, Culture, Unbroken

  Edward Burnett Tylor (2016). “Primitive Culture”, p.426, Courier Dover Publications

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• Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Party, Government, Organization

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• Allah made us all a different shade and colour. Nations and tribes recognize one another! 'Cause every single person is your sister and brother.

  Dawud Wharnsby Ali

  Brother, Different, Shade

  "Song: 'Colours of Islam' ('Colours of Islam')". 1998.

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• For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Animal, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.86, Coyote Canyon Press

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• Savages cling to a local god of one tribe or town. The broad ethics of Jesus were quickly narrowed to village theologies, which preach an election or favoritism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Jesus, Savages, Village

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

  Mustafa Akyol

  Islamic, Men, Ideas

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• As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.

  Action Bronson

  Rap, Guy

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• Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Country, Fashion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.44, Xist Publishing

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• In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year.

  John Dos Passos

  Spring, Fall, Years

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world.  If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.

  Gerald Hausman

  World, Earth, Way

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• I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

  Maya Beiser

  Father, Sound, Village

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• Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés like "blazing trails," flying over "shark-infected seas," "battling with monsoons," and "forced landings amongst savage tribes" became familiar diet for breakfast. Unknown names became household words, whilst others, those of the failures, were forgotten utterly except by kith and kin.

  Amy Johnson

  Sharks, Sea, Names

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• 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.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Thinking, Church, Bigs

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

  Bayard Taylor

  Athlete, Race, Apollo

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.128, The Floating Press

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• It's ridiculous if you ask me. I don't know what any of us are doing here. But we're a tribe, a network, cruising the galaxy. We have offices in every loka, in every part of existence. I suppose you make that out to be a unique situation. We're Unique! No, I don't think so. We're enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Unique, Thinking

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• British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further believe that the future can be foretold by the measurements of the Great Pyramid, which probably means it will be big and yellow and in the hand of the Arabs. They also believe that if you sleep with your head under the pillow a fairy will come and take all your teeth.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Believe, Fall

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• When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Moon, Men

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• I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thinking, Suffering, Embrace

  "Emerson: The Mind on Fire". Book by Robert D. Richardson (p. 205), March 6, 1995.

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