Top 313 Tribes Quotes & Sayings

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

The struggle against the Houthis inside Yemen is fierce. For years, powerful Yemeni tribes received money from Saudi Arabia. Now the Saudis back the Sunni tribes opposed to the Houthis with cash and arms. And then there is al-Qaida.

People aren't social. They're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are real.

One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes on their reservations. That decision has had horrible consequences for law enforcement on Indian reservations. But in that opinion Justice William Rehnquist cites language from the 1830s to explain why whites didn't trust tribes to exercise criminal jurisdiction. They were savages.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

Our relations with the various Indian tribes continue to be of a pacific character.

Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.

I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.

We are Italian. We are all little tribes - not only in fashion, but also in music - in everything, basically.

Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes from getting casinos [on screen: 'Thou Shalt Not Compete'] and bribe congressmen in the process. Know what I call that? I call that business as usual in Washington. [on screen: 'Screwing Indians']

Israeli society is comprised of four principal tribes growing closer in size.

There are tribes all over the world who sing and dance every day as part of their lives. And we oughta do that.

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

"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."

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

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

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.

From several of the Indian tribes inhabiting the country bordering on Lake Erie purchases have been made of lands on conditions very favorable to the United States, and, as it is presumed, not less so to the tribes themselves.

People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that tribe. But they want to be different from other tribes.

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

We're a matrilineal society, as Pueblo women, and there are a lot of tribes across the country who are.

While the Pilgrims landed on 'Plymouth Rock' in 1620, the Spanish had already settled in to the Southwest beginning in the late 1500s, and with the coming of Europeans, some tribes suffered massive declines in populations due to disease and violence. Some Tribes were wiped out by 90 percent, while others were completely decimated.

During the 19th century, Britain fought two wars in unsuccessful attempts to subjugate the Afghans. When Britain finally drew a border between India and Afghanistan in 1893, Pashtun tribes in southern Afghanistan were cut off from related tribes across the border in what was then India and is now Pakistan.

[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.

Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.

Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes.

The real power of tribes has nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with people.

Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.

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

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

Over the centuries, close-knit tribes have played an important part in the cohesion of Libyan society.

This doctrine of transmigration or reincarnation of the soul is found among many tribes of savages

ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.

For me, creating the clothes of Givenchy is the way to make my tribe. It's related to religion, too, because it's people trying to find identity - the young generation is looking for tribes. You have the hip-hop tribes, the punk tribes, the rockers, you have the hipsters, the bourgeois ... The fact of the tribe is that it's like a religion. Punk is like a religion, because it's a belief.

Tribes don't need Congressmembers' sympathy. What tribes need is for us to properly exercise our duty.

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition.

The story of our Commonwealth cannot be told without the history and experiences of Virginia's Native tribes.

Today what we see is tribes moving into the 21st century and facing real 21st century problems of globalization, of multi-national, national resource development, of jobs, tribes have elected leaderships. They're elected to do a lot of things.

In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.

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

I think we have a lot to learn from ancient cultures and different tribes.

I do not believe that the Sunni tribes have gone over to the Islamic State.

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

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.

Conformism is essential to the group coherence and 'spirit.' The whole impetus behind tribalism of this kind is conservative: Belonging to the tribe is defined by opposition to other tribes. Our tribe, and its traditional ways, is superior to other tribes because it is ours.

Belief that your tribe is good and other tribes are evil is what everyone thought for most of human history.

The case of Johnson v. M'Intosh is exactly why Congress can pass legislation as it did with the Rio Tinto land mine deal because Congress took the land from the tribes, ignores their sacred connections to it, their cultural connections and does whatever it wants with it. Congress terminated tribal status for more than 100 tribes. Basically said, you're not a tribe anymore and we're not going to pay attention to the treaties. The Supreme Court has held that when Congress breaches a treaty with an Indian tribe it's not judicially reviewable. It's called a political question.

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.