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  • Ethnic differences exist; of course they exist on the African continent. They are not necessarily political differences, however. They don't necessarily cause people to kill each other. They become so-called 'tribalism' when they are politicized in a particular framework. And in post-independence Africa they have been politicized largely by sections of the so-called African elite.

  • I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

    Light   Views   Toxic  
    "Can Biology Do Better Than Faith?". www.newscientist.com. November 02, 2005.
  • Tribalism has become trendy.

  • I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

  • The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others and to define the rest as threatening to their way of life and values is deeply worrying because this contemporary form of tribalism, and the ideologies that support it, enable them to deny complex and more crosscutting mutual interdependencies-local, national, and international-and to elude their own role in creating long-term threats to their own wellbeing and that of others.

    Fate   Creating   Long  
  • Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

    Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”
  • Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.

    Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

    "Redeemers". Interview with Matt Dellinger, www.newyorker.com. April 21, 2003.
  • The modern tribalism of the left demands that each person choose a group and then agree with everything that group agrees with. And anybody who leaves that group is stoned to death.

    Groups   Demand   Modern  
  • I am extremely conscious of my tribalism. And when you talk about tribalism, you talk about living in a black and white world. I mean, Native American tribalism sovereignty, even the political fight for sovereignty and cultural sovereignty is a very us versus them. And I think a lot of people in this country, especially European Americans and those descended from Europeans don't see themselves as tribal.

    "Sherman Alexie on Living Outside Cultural Borders". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. April 12, 2013.
  • Imagination is the most powerful force in the universe.

  • What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.

  • We must put behind us the tribalism and divisions seen in the referendum between Leave and Remain and focus on defining our place in the world, healing our wonderful nation and putting core Conservative principles and values into action.

    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

    Thinking   Hands   Islam  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.

    Way   Becoming   Honest  
  • Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

    Patrick Dixon (2011). “Futurewise”, p.127, Profile Books
  • Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

  • If you spend time with crazy and dangerous people, remember – their personalities are socially transmitted diseases; like water poured into a container, most of us eventually turn into – or remain – whoever we surround ourselves with. We can choose our tribe, but we cannot change that our tribe is our destiny.

    Crazy   Destiny   People  
  • To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

    "Interview: Honest joker's charm offensive". Interview With Polly Toynbee, Michael White, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2001.
  • I do believe, separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them.

    Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, Maximos Mansion, Athens, Greece, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.
  • I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed, it was only because I was betrayed. The so-called genocide was nothing more than just a war in defence of the revolution and a system from which all have benefited.

    Country   Military   War  
    "Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators". Book by Riccardo Orizio, 2003.
  • "X-Men" is not really about mutants; it's about humanity. I think it's about the human race. We're an absolutely destructive race. It seems that we can't seem to get beyond this level of tribalism that has been around for thousands of years. Anything we fear we tend to destroy.

    Men   Thinking   Race  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged “good” can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.

    War   Men   Long  
    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.525, Penguin
  • You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

  • ... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

    David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.344, Random House
  • I think there is tribalism is a big deal inside of the church, that the church thinks of themselves as a tribe and not a mission.

    Source: www.christianpost.com
  • Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

    Doe   Tribalism   Dare  
    Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.84, Cornell University Press
  • Love is the most powerful force in the world.

  • The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

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