73 Quotes About Tribes

  • Author Nelson Mandela
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    The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!

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  • Author Chris Patten
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    It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.

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  • Author Steven Pressfield
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    Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells.

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  • Author Eric S. Raymond
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    In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

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  • Author Charles Simic
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    Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

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  • Author Gary Snyder
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    A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.

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  • Author John Shelby Spong
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    The Jesus experience expanded people into a position where they didn't have to have defensive tribal lives, "God loves my people, my tribe, anddoesn't like yours." The Bible is full of such references.

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