Tribalism Quotes

“You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.”
― idowu koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

“People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose;
Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear.
Make a hairbreadth difference, and Heaven and Earth are set apart;
If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.
The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease;”
― Jianzhi Sengcan

“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.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“If Americans simply choose to vote for the person who has a D or an R by their name, we will get what we deserve, which is what we have now.”
― Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

“Through love, tribes have been intermixing colors to reveal a new rainbow world. And as more time passes, this racial and cultural blending will make it harder for humans to side with one race, nation or religion over another.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be.”
― Kate Atkinson, Transcription

“Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.' What are the implications of this statement? Would it be an argument in favor of the candidacy of Mrs. Clinton? Would this mean that Elizabeth Edwards and Michelle Obama don't deserve the help of fellow females? If the Republicans nominated a woman would Ms. Albright instantly switch parties out of sheer sisterhood? Of course not. (And this wearisome tripe from someone who was once our secretary of state ...)”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritual free-fall." When people make such remarks, such appalling judgements, they never include themselves, their friends, those with whom they agree. They have drawn, as they say, a bright line between an "us" and a "them." Those on the other side of the line are assumed to be unworthy of respect or hearing, and are in fact to be regarded as a huge problem to the "us" who presume to judge "them." This tedious pattern has repeated itself endlessly through human history and is, as I have said, the end of community and the beginning of tribalism.”
― Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books

“In this chapter, we’ve considered six psychological tendencies that exacerbate intertribal conflict. First, human tribes are tribalistic, favoring Us over Them. Second, tribes have genuine disagreements about how societies should be organized, emphasizing, to different extents, the rights of individuals versus the greater good of the group. Tribal values also differ along other dimensions, such as the role of honor in prescribing responses to threats. Third, tribes have distinctive moral commitments, typically religious ones, whereby moral authority is vested in local individuals, texts, traditions, and deities that other groups don’t recognize as authoritative. Fourth, tribes, like the individuals within them, are prone to biased fairness, allowing group-level self-interest to distort their sense of justice. Fifth, tribal beliefs are easily biased. Biased beliefs arise from simple self-interest, but also from more complex social dynamics. Once a belief becomes a cultural identity badge, it can perpetuate itself, even as it undermines the tribe’s interests. Finally, the way we process information about social events can cause us to underestimate the harm we cause others, leading to the escalation of conflict.”
― Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them

“The way apes understand what's cultured, I'm not that sort of cultured - I'm humanly cultured - which means, I live as cure for tribalism, not coddle; I abolish chains, not worship them, I do not entertain stereotypes - I question and denounce prejudice, both external and internal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Illegal Immigrant in every state, for I come from a Time beyond tribes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I am vast beyond the spell of tribe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Politicians are professional gaslighters, they gaslight people against people, neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother, humanity against humanity - that's how they stay in business. And the fact that we've evolved from the apes, doesn't help much - our jungle instincts of tribalism don't need much coaxing to be blown into fully fledged war, between cultures, between religions, between nations.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Give monkeys some bananas, and they're happy -
give humans a flag, scripture and gun, they're delirious.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Every mind is infinite, every mind, transcendental,
ape customs castrate the human into farm animal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“What is A Naskar Sonnet (2312)

In the Naskar world, sonnet is not
an elitist structure of rigid rhyme and meter,
Naskar sonnet is a self-contained unit of
civilization, indifferent to literary convention.

I weave sonnets around the message,
instead of forcing the message into the sonnets.
Till you cut the cuffs of form, don't touch my works,
if you want method and structure, pursue mathematics.

Childish eurocentric conventions are too puny
to contain the vastness of a transcendental human,
sometimes I'm Dervish, sometimes Advaita,
and the Brain Scientist keeps out the superstition.

Every mind is infinite, every mind, transcendental,
ape customs castrate the human into farm animal.
Cut the wings of a dove at birth,
and it'll spend its life crawling like vermin.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Every Time An Ape is Born (Sonnet 2410)

Every time an ape is born, adult apes rush to assign its nation, religion, and culture - thus an entire species is raised as ape, lives as ape, and dies as ape, never to become human.

There's no conspiracy, just convention, for this setup is ideal for profit, it's ideal for political power - more divided the apes are, less they question what's inhuman,

which is why infant apes are brainwashed day in, day out: 'our culture is truth supreme, other cultures are alien' -

even the schools are plugged into this system, along with the media, all aimed at one systemic objective, apes must never become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Every time an ape is born, adult apes rush to assign its nation, religion, and culture - thus an entire species is raised as ape, lives as ape, and dies as ape, never to become human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Nationality and religion are like blood groups, it has no relation to human capacity and character, despite the superstitions and conspiracy theories.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Nationality and religion are like blood groups, it has no relation to human capacity and character, despite the superstitions and conspiracy theories; morons are found in every corner of the world, just like mavericks are found in every corner.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“To salute the flag is just as animal as burning a flag, to obey the scripture blind is just as savage as burning a scripture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Grown adults never try to fit into childhood clothes, then why should grown humans try to fit into tribal customs!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“All roots are chains.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“You still hang from the trees, yet you claim to understand the Himalayas!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Nothing's easier than being an ape: obey the tribal chief, practice the state-approved religion, and never love a neighbor that your monkey king disapproves of - but to be human takes heart, brain, and backbone, three fundamental forces which invoke the very ruin of political power, for they pluck the apes from the cesspool of fear, and elevate them to human consciousness, which is adamantly allergic to primitive nonsense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Papers identify monkeys, not the human spirit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I was born of flesh,
and given the name Naskar,
I outgrew the rule of flesh,
but kept the name as token.

Flesh and name are both just shell,
both have a role, but none is sovereign.
Submit to flesh, and monkeys run amok,
worship the name, and stagnation sets in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace