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“Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.”

Feelings Regions Tribes Extensions Grandma Inseparable Provinces Personal History

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.”

Men Heart Said Feelings Animal Members Capable Hatred Instinct Endure Envy Stealing Kingdoms Selfishness Sole Tribes Malice Drunkenness Filthy Animal Kingdom Vindictiveness Bad Heart

Author:Mark Twain

“As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.”

Trying Mind May Earth Values Animal Common Vision Magic Ignorance Poet Solitude Approach Our Time Soil Wilderness Ecstasy Tribes Rebirth Fertility Initiation

Author:Gary Snyder

“They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on”

People Ifs Thinking Humans Names Human Beings Enemy Trouble One Day Tribes Good Day

Book:The Carpet People

Source: The Carpet People

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”

Believe Law Forgiveness Tradition Forgiving Individuality Programming Customs Tribes Laws Of Nature Nonconformity Conformity And Individuality

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”

“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.”

Source: Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal

“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.”

Feels Looks May Persons Stills Hard Young Tribes Withered

Author:Ian Mcewan

“Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf, and eat hot h'ors d'ourves. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller. And for all of these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.”

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.”

People Ifs World Should Two War Home Literature Lost Water Can Do Church Prayer Race Laughing Praying Music Is Structure Bread Desert Tribes You Can Do It Unimportant Unheard Armenia

Author:William Saroyan

“God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing.”

Source: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

“We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.”

Men Animal Broken Type Following Tribes Wild Animal Respectability Rugged

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”

Ifs World Mean Earth Political Nations Race Class Perspective Loyalty Tribes Peace On Earth Peace And Justice

Book:The Trumpet of Conscience

Source: The Trumpet of Conscience

“My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.”

World Book School Parent Poor Study Tribes Saddest

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.”

Source: T2 Trainspotting

“The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.”

Sound Cities Air Dangerous Police Smell Tribes Stifling

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.”

Source: Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions

“Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.”

Way Long Book Reading Method Luck West Discovering Savages Tribes Assimilation

Author:E. M. Forster

“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”

“The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.”

Men Mind Humans Wells Universe Individual Understanding Race Human Nature Perception Mirrors Foundation Contrary Rays Idols Receiving Tribes Assertion Mingling

Book:New Atlantis and The Great Instauration

Source: New Atlantis and The Great Instauration

“My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.”

Years Mother Social Justice Issues Rights Style Catholic Social Justice Conservative Womens Rights Tribes Old Fashioned Baroque

Author:Geraldine Brooks

“We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.”

Fear Hours Deals Company Learning Tree Produce Essence Silent Intimate Tribes Gracious Pacific Soothing Strengthening

Book:Pleasures and days: and other writings

Source: Pleasures and days: and other writings

“We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.”

World Believe Helping Humanity Grows Lines Common Hatred Someday Tribes Common Humanity

Author:Barack Obama

“The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.”

“Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.”

Ifs Men Social Imagination Levels Responsibility Virtue Higher Loyalty Devotion Tribes Social Responsibility

Book:Starship Troopers

Source: Starship Troopers

“I met Pendragon when I made the journey to the far desert. He is from the tribe known as...as..." Loor was scrambling. Bokka didn't know about the Travelers. I had to bail her out. Yankees," I said. "The Yankees tribe." Hey, what can I say? It was the first thing that came to mind. "It's a strong tribe," I added. "Respected by all...except for our mortal enemies, the Sox tribe. They hate us. Especially the Red ones. Cannibals. Nasty characters.”

Source: Pendragon Books 6-10: The Rivers of Zadaa; The Quillan Games; The Pilgrims of Rayne; Raven Rise; The Soldiers of Halla

“"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."”

People Thinking Knows World Said Two Used Black White Broken Indian Insightful Black And White Tribes Broken Down

Author:Sherman Alexie

“In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem from deep within the Earth, a talisman with special powers.”

Earth Special Seven Ancient Borders Divided Tribes Gems Deep Within Talismans

Book:Deltora Quest #1: The Forests of Silence

Source: Deltora Quest #1: The Forests of Silence

“As man advances in civilization, and small tribes are united into larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.”

Men Reason Individual Nations Social Community United Race Ought Civilization Members Instinct Barriers Artificial Tribes Simplest Natural Selection Extending

Book:The Descent of Man: the Evolution

Source: The Descent of Man: the Evolution

“Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Giving Choices Asks Forever Land Missing Roots Unhappy Alternatives Meals Native Tribes Funny Things Sauce Gourmet Truffles Filet Mignon

Book:Handle with Care: A Novel

Source: Handle with Care: A Novel

“I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.”

Soul Earth Values Animal Common Vision Magic Solitude Ecstasy Tribes Fertility

Author:Gary Snyder

“A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.”

Men Water Flesh Tribes

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“Estranged from the tribe that gives no protection, What happens to the soul that hates its reflection?”

Giving Soul Happens Hate Reflection Protection Tribes

Author:Sherman Alexie

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

Men Lasts Wish Surrender Remembered Tribes Rifles

Book:Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches

Source: Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches

“Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.”

Men May Order Nations White Common Destiny Sea Regret Wave Useless Decay Tribes White Man Native American Indian Native American Spiritual

Author:Chief Seattle

“Is the raggle-taggle Brangelina tribe any more bogus than that of the landlocked yummy mummy who believes that she can drop half a dozen brats and still keep a modest carbon footprint? I don't think so.”

Thinking Believe Stills Half Dozen Modest Carbon Tribes Footprint Mummy Brat Yummy Carbon Footprint

Author:Julie Burchill

“The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and encourages the hope of their early civilization. They have for the most part abandoned the hunter state and turned their attention to agricultural pursuits.”

Country States Attention Conditions Civilization West Pursuit Abandoned Tribes Hunters Prosperous

Book:Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress

Source: Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress

“The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.”

States United United States Performances Obligation Instance Indian Fulfilled Tribes Treaties Good Faith Indian Tribes Stipulations

Book:Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress

Source: Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress

“Anyway, lots of warrior tribes think that when they die, they go to a heavenly land somewhere," said the toad. "You know, where they can drink and fight and feast forever? So maybe this is theirs." "But this is a real place!" "So? That's what they believe. Besides, they're only small. Maybe the universe is a bit crowded and they have to put heavens anywhere there's room? I'm a toad, so you'll appreciate that I'm having to guess a lot here.”

Thinking Knows Believe Said Real Dies Fighting Universe Heaven Bits Rooms Forever Land Drink Appreciate Warrior Heavenly Tribes Crowded Toads

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Leonard Aster thanked Fighting Prawn and the Mollusk tribe for their hospitality. “You mean,” said Fighting Prawn, “for not killing you?” “Yes,” said Leonard. “It was very gracious of you.” “Do you,” said Leonard, “I mean, does you tribe, shake hands?” “No,” said Fighting Prawn. “We kiss on the lips.” “Oh,” said Leonard, looking very alarmed.”

Mean Doe Said Hands Fighting Kissing Killing Lips Shakes Tribes Hospitality Gracious Asters Mollusks Prawns

Author:Dave Barry

“I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.”

Men Whole Found Company Blood Fool Birth Hatred Intelligent Worthy Deceiving Tribes Exploits Scoundrels Intelligent Man Scruples Unconquerable

Author:Giacomo Casanova

“This tug-of-war often obscures what's also happening between us. I am your mother, the first mile of your road. Me and all my obvious and hidden limitations. That means that in addition to possibly wrecking you, I have the chance to give to you what was given to me: a decent childhood, more good memories than bad, some values, a sense of tribe, a run at happiness. You can't imagine how seriously I take that - even as I fail you. Mothering you is the first thing of consequence that I have ever done.”

“You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.”

Thinking Knows World Way May Lying Mother Found Accepting Minutes This World Type Who I Am Tribes Being A Woman Harem Accepting The Truth

Author:Alison Goodman

“The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and all the trees, then that is what the tribe is. Even though some of the oldest trees here came from warriors of two different tribes, fallen in battle. We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe." Ender marveled at his mind, this small raman [member of another sentient species]. How few humans were able to grasp this idea, or let it extend beyond the narrow confines of their tribe, their family, their nation.”

Ifs Mind Believe Humans Littles Two Ideas Different Able Nations Tree Battle Members Species Forests Warrior Fallen Tribes Ender

Book:The Ender Quintet

Source: The Ender Quintet

“I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.”

Source: A Question of Attraction: A Novel

“The world is divided by two different tribes. The people who are assholes and the people who are not.”

People World Two Different Divided Tribes

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings but cousins and aunts and uncles, an entire tribe to claim as your own. Maybe you would feel lost in the crowd. Or sheltered by it. Whatever the case, one things was for sure: like it or not, you'd never be alone.”

Feels Would Be Lost Parent Cases Imagine One Thing Claims Crowds Uncles Tribes Cousin Aunt Sibling Aunts And Uncles

Book:Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?”

Ifs May Speak Language Core Outsiders Tribes Elude Passwords

Book:Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry:

Source: Brian Friel's Dramatic Artistry:

“‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.”

Ifs World Stills Two Talent Greatness Jew Pessimism World War Ii Tribes Cursed Irritating

Book:City of Thieves: A Novel

Source: City of Thieves: A Novel

“Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.”

Wells States Hands Eye Speak Tree Dog Tears Beats Extremes Mood Indian Jealous Throat Tribes Pearls Melting Gum Perplexed Arabian

Author:William Shakespeare