73 Quotes About Tribes

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

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

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

You find your tribe and you stick with them.

The Zulu is only outside the bars of a madhouse because there are no madhouses provided by his tribe. ... primitives are far more aberrated than civilized peoples. Their savageness, their unprogressiveness, their incidence of illness ...

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.