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

“Heir to no throne,
no crown on my head,
tearing up borderly lies,
I burn as the lamp of aid.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Don't need flags in the sky, we're the colors when we try.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“I'm the memory before divisions crept in.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“You hunger for tall walls, I hunger for tall humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Sonnet 2713

Every monkey thinks toxic masculinity is nobility,
every monkey thinks blind faith is divinity,
every ape thinks tribalism is divine fury,
and brainless loyalty is patriotic duty.

Every ape confuses superstition with spirituality,
every ape confuses conspiracy with curiosity,
every ape confuses fear with reverence,
every ape confuses exclusivity with supremacy.

Every ape thinks their flag is the flag of god,
every ape thinks their land is the land of god,
every ape thinks their lingo is the lingo of god,
every ape thinks their text is the text of god.

Takes a human to feel empty without others,
takes a human to feel incomplete when alone.
Absolute self-sufficiency is a mental illness,
you gotta be extremely selfish to be happy on your own.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“I Am The Genre (Sonnet 2629)

There is no time, only I am.
There is no society, only I am.
There is no law, only I am.
There is no sacred, only I am.

There is no genre, only I am.
There is no poetry, only I am.
There is no reason, only I am.
There is no reality, only I am.

There is nothing above me,
nothing is underneath.
The day I left the ape behind,
the jungle lost a sheep.

There is no truth, only love -
there is no ethic, only empathy -
everything else is mere accessory,
used by the Human to lift up humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“There is nothing above me, nothing is underneath. The day I left the ape behind, the jungle lost a sheep.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“I burnt my life as proof that Naskar is human, yet apes continue to google, what religion is Naskar, what nationality is Naskar!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“A human being in their complete wholeness is universally illegal in every nation state, because the jungle thrives on fragmentation, and any specimen that refuses to honor and obey fragmentation, is by default a national threat.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Awake, arise, break the trance of tribe,
and the planet of apes becomes human.
Hoist your heart as a beacon of love -
confront the fear, and war loses oxygen.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Vegetables with roots are still vegetables,
animals with tradition are still animals.
Apes flying spaceships are still apes,
parasites in office are still parasites.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“No point in climbing the Everest
while your heart is still a swamp,
no point in Voyaging with Naskar
while you carry a medieval mindset.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“If you ask me what religion am I,
I'll ask you what jungle are you from!
If you ask me what is my nationality,
I'll ask you what is your malady!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Unfurl your fiber, and refuse the script,
don’t make pilgrimage out of jungle myths.
Break the narrative, you break the spell –
end of nationalism is end of the animal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar works in mysterious ways (Sonnet 2821)

Naskar is not linear, Naskar is not binary,
remember that, before you start analyzing
Naskar with your two little backwater,
linear, binary brain cells.

I roam across dimensions, across disciplines,
across cultures, languages, and timelines,
across entire spectrums of electrochemical experiences,
of which the tribally paralyzed carbon based,
mammalian, biped lifeform can only register a sliver.

I'm a life containing a moment,
I'm a moment containing a lifetime.
I'm a mind containing a message,
I'm the message containing a mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Naskar is not linear, Naskar is not binary, remember that, before you start analyzing Naskar with your two little backwater, linear, binary brain cells. I roam across dimensions, across disciplines, across cultures, languages, and timelines, across entire spectrums of electrochemical experiences, of which the tribally paralyzed carbon based, mammalian, biped lifeform can only register a sliver.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“It’s the Naskar Fever, side effects include – rewriting the world, you may experience thoughts too wide, and sudden urges to dissolve divide.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth