#tribe

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

— Roland Joffe

#confidence #developed #eventually #invited #me

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do! ↗

— Roland Joffe

#always #asked #because #cannot #conversation

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

#even #liberty #organization #over #peace

No tribe unites with another of its own free will. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#free #free will #own #tribe #unites

If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#australian #cultural #ever #force #got

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

#back #concerned #could #essentially #find

We function in a pack mentality. This is our tribe. And this is how we are exploited - sold a bill of goods and a household of products. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#exploited #function #goods #household #how

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#atlanta #audience #boston #ceremonial #dance

The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development. ↗

— Dave Freudenthal

#development #doing #economic #economic development #established

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#context #cultures #died #dying #extended