#tribal

I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#limitations-of-knowledge #tribalism #arrogance

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

#behavior #best #entertainment #everyone #game

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#chunk #first #first time #give #land

Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#care #conquest #had #jehovah #loyalty

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

#barack obama #captive #discourse #entered #fevers

It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#always #cop #i #incendiary #interests

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#american #culture #grew #i #storytelling

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#lead #loved #lover #must #out

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#consider #father #great #holdings #i

I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#confronting #divisions #greatest #i #islam