Tribes Quotes

• Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.

  Seth Godin

  Greatness, Our Lives

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.3, Penguin

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• All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

  Mark Twain

  Land, Feet, America

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.648, eKitap Projesi

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• I'd have conversations with the camera crew about what was going on in the scene, so that they were prepared to shoot it. I love the fact that when you work, you create this tribe.

  Susan Sarandon

  Cameras, Facts, Scene

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• I am a member of a small, nearly extinct minority group, a kind of urban lost tribe who insist, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, on the sanctity of being on time. Which is to say that we On-timers are compulsively, unfashionably prompt, that there are only handfuls of us in any given city and, unfortunately, we never seem to have appointments with each other.

  Ellen Goodman

  Cities, Faces, Groups

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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• We tend to gravitate towards our tribes; the challenge is to understand the people of other tribes.

  Diana L. Eck

  People, Challenges

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

  Dirk Wittenborn

  People, Mets

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• Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Progress Of Society

  The Fountainhead pt. 4, ch. 18 (1943)

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• Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

  Ella Maillart

  Simple, Appreciate, Literature

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• And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

  Seth Godin

  Our World, Numbers, People

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• If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They work the whole day so they can sing and dance with abandon at night.

  Rajneesh

  Night, Watches, Way

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• The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

  Jasmine Guy

  Friendship, Country, Family Love

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• So many of us feel like we're misfits until we finally find our tribe - the other people who are are strange in the same way - and suddenly everything clicks.

  Jenny Lawson

  People, Way, Strange

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

  Helen Keller

  Age, Maldives, Optimist

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.134, Matthew Gordon

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• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  Tecumseh

  Makers, Fortune, My Own

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• I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who for many thousands of years, in all countries and parts of the world, has, now and again, stayed for a time among the hard-working honest people in real life, and sometimes has thus been fortunate enough to create another sort of reality for them, which in some way or another, has satisfied them. I am a storyteller.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Real, Hard Work

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1987). “On Modern Marriage and Other Observations”

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• Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Work, Needs

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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  Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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

  Seth Godin

  Unhappy, Enough Time, Painful

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.101, Penguin

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• 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.

  Martin Van Buren

  United States, Stipulations, Obligation

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “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”, p.18

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• As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.

  RuPaul

  Believe, Kids, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

  Edward Hoagland

  Opportunity, Land, Genocide

  Edward Hoagland (2014). “On Nature: Selected Essays”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Government, People, Support

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.342, U of Nebraska Press

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• What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

  Andrew Schneider

  Men, Law, Two

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

  Sitting Bull

  Men, Wish, Rifles

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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