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The Six Faces of the FUTURE are: Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical. -- Patrick Dixon
Tribal sovereignty means that. It's sovereign. You're a... you're a... you've been given sovereignty and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. -- George W. Bush
Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead. -- Peter Abrahams
There is nothing new and nothing truthful in the false accusations against public officials make by the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation today, ... The simple reality is that the Schaghticoke fail to meet the criteria for federal recognition. -- Richard Blumenthal
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
The FBI continues to work with tribes through the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 to help tribal governments better address the unique public safety challenges and disproportionately high rates of violence and victimization in many tribal communities. -- James Comey
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal. -- Deepak Chopra
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. -- Marshall McLuhan
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. -- Sitting Bull
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time. -- Sitting Bull
When you're around the whole Dead scene, they're there as a tribal thing; they're there as part of a rendezvous and a pow-wow. -- Ken Kesey
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. -- William Graham Sumner
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. -- E. O. Wilson
That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere. -- Ben Kingsley
You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic. -- Damian Marley
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the past. -- Steve Irwin
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity. -- Peter Singer
I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify. -- Colin Farrell
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them. -- Robert Reich
It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family. -- Rick Renzi
Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography. -- Peter Guber
It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher. -- Steven Pinker
I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism. -- Sam Harris
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community. -- Winona LaDuke
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult. -- Al Stewart
When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. -- Wangari Maathai
Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature. -- Manolo Blahnik
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. -- Mitch Daniels
I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it's a trend. -- Virat Kohli
Politics is a highly tribal business. -- Nick Clegg
People are hard-wired for tribal identity. -- Bruce Pavitt
Marketing management is now tribal leadership. -- Seth Godin
This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone. -- Fiona Shaw
Politics should be about politics, not tribal ties -- Musalia Mudavadi
I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people. -- William P. Young
Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden. -- Anne Sexton
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures. -- Terry Eagleton
Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view. -- Vidal Sassoon
Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred. -- Christopher Hitchens
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact. -- Gore Vidal
Let me say it diplomatically: Most religions are tribal to some degree. -- Jonathan Haidt
People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real. -- Mat Johnson
Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries. -- Pope Francis
I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language. -- Michael Ignatieff
The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating. -- Li Keqiang
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right. -- Rudyard Kipling
Fundamentalist Christianity appeals to pre-civilized, prudish tribal people who are not ready for urban feudal pleasures. -- Timothy Leary
There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan. -- Leon Panetta
I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds. -- Adam Lambert
I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people. -- Evangeline Lilly
I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture. -- Sherman Alexie
It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. -- Ayn Rand
An Osage tribal study found that between $41 million to $50 million left a 50-mile radius around their own casino -- John Warren Kindt
Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat -- Narendra Modi
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. -- Todd Gitlin
The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods. -- Edward O. Wilson
We are reluctant to live outside tribal rules because we are afraid of getting kicked out of the tribe. -- Caroline Myss
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. -- Mason Cooley
Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood. -- Irena Sendler
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned. -- Sade Adu
Across the dying fire, Seth Clearwater - his eyes wide with adulation for the fraternity of tribal protectors- nodded his agreement." -- Stephenie Meyer
In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it. -- Julius Nyerere
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. -- Marshall McLuhan
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies. -- Jon Anderson
I have a poorly done tribal armband that i got when i was 16, i love showing it to people because it totally sucks -- Jade Puget
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic. -- Felix Dennis
My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions. -- Mamnoon Hussain
It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful. -- Helen Fisher
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval. -- Khaled Hosseini
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. -- Louise Erdrich
Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity. -- Richard Flanagan
I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects. -- Mark Grotjahn
Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not. -- George Bernard Shaw
Multiculturalism means your kid has to learn some wretched tribal dirge for the school holiday concert instead of getting to sing 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.' -- Henry Hazlitt
CS: I always say there's a tribal element in a rock concert. There's a real back-and-forth thing that goes on between the audience and the performers. -- Chris Stein
Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact. -- Jim Goad
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour. -- Adam Hochschild
Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe. -- Kurt Vonnegut
We are communal beings who love to get together in groups and share emotions - like sporting events, rock concerts and political rallies. We crave tribal membership. -- Nick Morgan
Absolutely, it's a Sunni area. So the key here, once Ramadi is taken that you have the Sunni tribal fighters, Sunni police in there patrolling the city. -- Tom Bowman
This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies. -- Terence McKenna
There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment. -- Leonard Cohen
Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society. -- Michael Shermer
The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive. -- Marshall McLuhan
My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest. -- Steve Irwin
There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way. -- Libba Bray
Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services. -- Martin Rees
The Art Deco movement, architecture from that period and sort of the industrial aesthetic from that period. Art Deco meets tribal kind of thing. All that is my primal inspiration. -- Pamela Love
I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom. -- Cat Stevens
People say, Why dont you just paint with paintbrushes? I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. Its very tribal in a way - savage! -- Meredith Ostrom
I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles. -- Laurel Burch
Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer. -- Kate Millett
At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior. -- John Carmack
I think the fact that us as a race still continues to be very tribal and we haven't really moved away from that over hundreds and hundreds of years of experience... -- Michael Fassbender
I think there are innumerable gods. What we on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. -- William S. Burroughs
The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive protector of the nation which calls upon him. -- Joseph Alexander Leighton
When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person. -- David Kirk
Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. -- Alice Dreger
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves. -- Edward Sapir
Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession. -- Stephen Kinzer
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. -- John Shelby Spong
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
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
Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit. -- Winona LaDuke
We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music. -- Matthew McConaughey
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging. -- Tom Paulin
But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman. -- Ram Swarup
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
I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on. -- Bill Mollison
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground. -- Alex Haley
The problems of tribal conflicts in Kenya are much older, caused by the former colonial power. A former American ambassador there once wrote about how the CIA has contributed to the divisions between Kenyans. -- Yoweri Museveni

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