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 "Society for Humanity" is a Northern organization, primarily, you know, and they make no secret of not wanting the Machines. -- Susan, they are few in numbers, but it is an association of powerful men. Heads of factories; directors of industries and agricultural combines who hate to be what they call "the Machine's office-boy" belong to it. Men with ambition belong to it. Men who feel themselves strong enough to decide for themselves what is best for themselves, and not just to be told what is best for others.["] (from The Evitable Conflict, 1950)”
― Isaac Asimov, The Complete Robot

“A caterpillar doesn't just grow wings to become a butterfly, its entire anatomy gets reorganized, from a crawling insect to a flying wonder, including its neural pathways, the same must happen to the tribal ape, to become a civilized human. Creation is the aftermath of combustion, enlightenment is the aftermath of annihilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“There are many things I have no attraction for, sports, alcohol, smoking, or god, but I don't begrudge anyone for theirs, within limit these work like personal therapy, but then there are things that literally downgrade a human to the level of ape, such as guns, confederate flag, zionism, nazism, nationalism of any ethnicity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The planet pulses in my blood vessels,
I cannot fit into a monkey's passport.
Cosmos bubbles through my consciousness,
I cannot fit into your animal customs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“I've descended from exploding stars, and you think you with your monkey mind can erase me, you can own all the rockets, all the satellites, all the armies, robots, and all the banks, still you cannot dampen my nerve fibers charged with lightning from the heavens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Earth metrics are made for the monkeys by the monkeys, I am the barometer of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If you want safe, straightforward Naskar, read everything I wrote till about 2017, if you got the backbone to confront prejudice, read things I wrote till 2023 - but do not even dare to touch the works I poured after 2023, with a tribal, sectarian, linear, neanderthal mindset -

post-2023 Naskar texts are not for a planet of apes, they're for the humans who have genuinely outgrown the constraints of nation, religion, faith, intellect, facts, fiction, and all that dualistic jungle garbage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“A caterpillar doesn't just grow wings to become a butterfly, its entire anatomy gets reorganized, from a crawling insect to a flying wonder, including its neural pathways, the same must happen to the tribal ape, to become a civilized human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Enlightenment is the aftermath of annihilation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I've descended from exploding stars,
and you think you with your
monkey mind can erase me,

you can own all the rockets, all the satellites,
all the armies, robots, and all the banks,
still you cannot dampen my nerve fibers
charged with lightning from the heavens -

there is starlight bursting in my arteries,
there is comet-dust in my veins -
I spin like a mad dervish, and particles
conspire to construct the cosmos in my wake.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“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.

The only difference between blood groups and nationality is that, blood groups are a fundamental factor of medical treatment, whereas nationality and religion are fleeting vestiges of an adolescent species.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Don't read Naskar while hanging from trees
(UnSonnet 3117)

My fire didn't break out fully
until I started writing
in three languages at once,
turkish lit the fuse,
spanish fanned the flames,
and english reaped the harvest,
and that's just half my languages.

Dervish brought the pain,
Advaitin brought the brain,
Brain Scientist brought the filter,
and Poet just held the pen,
wearing the skin of Naskar.

When Nondualist Naskar met Dervish Naskar,
my head turned into a particle accelerator,
reality cracked open, and glued back with tears,
like all my blood was poured out into a jar,
then added rocket fuel, and pumped back in.

So don't read Naskar while hanging from trees;
you don't need to speak many languages,
or feel many cultures, although it helps,
you must at least be human enough
not to think your religion is the one
true religion, your country is the best,
your culture is the greatest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Don't read Naskar while hanging from trees.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Don't read Naskar while hanging from trees; you don't need to speak many languages, or feel many cultures, although it helps, you must at least be human enough not to think your religion is the one true religion, your country is the best, your culture is the greatest.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“One pen can defeat a thousand guns,
that's why they ban books, not guns.
There's nothing more dangerous than ideas
that inoculate the mind against weapons.

Traitor is not one who questions the state,
but the one who kills without question.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love,
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Racism is a developmental disorder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“For the Christian, the conscious prioritization of any worldly culture - prioritizing the white Christian, or the black Christian, or the yellow, the red, the polka dot, anything (just fill in the blank) - before being a Christian, this is idolatry. Racial tribalism is incompatible with the culmination of one surrendering their identity wholly to Christ.”
― Criss Jami

“Sometimes I wish I had invented a multicultural name for myself, before I started writing, like I do with my book titles, because apes have a disgusting tendency to stick religion onto names.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human