#tribal

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#born #consider #first #hammering #i

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#even #liberty #organization #over #peace

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#begins #city #comes #end #found

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#ethical #evolutionary #force #german #german people

This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#loyalty #seems #tribal #whole