Quotes About Tribalism

Though I am probably guilty of indulging in excessive tribalism myself at times, I try to put partisanship to one side where appropriate.

Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that nothing matters to them other than partisanship.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

Ludzie naprawdÄ™ nie walczÄ… o odcieÅ" skóry czy ideologiÄ™ – to tylko wygodne wskazówki do identyfikacji "swoich". Wyszystko zawsze sprowadza siÄ™ do wiÄ™zów krwi i ograniczonych zasobów.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

Our efforts to unite God and country, to pretend as if their objectives and characters are one, is to create a tribal god, who cares only for its own and no one else. It is the god of limited love, who endorses massacres, holocausts, and injustice of every sort, so long as those tyrannies are directed against the other.

I try to swim against the current as much as possible when it comes to the tribalism that defines the way people do politics on social media, and I try to present myself as an individual and humanistic voice. I'm interested in people, not just factions.

When we fail to properly civilize people, human nature rushes in. Absent a higher alternative, human nature drives us to make sense of the world on its own instinctual terms: That's tribalism.

Outside, the middle class was disappearing faster than the icecaps, xenophobes were winning elections or stocking up on assault rifles, warring tribes were butchering each other religiously, but inside, disruptive new technologies were rendering traditional politics obsolete.

People bind themselves into political teams that share moral narratives. Once they accept a particular narrative, they become blind to alternative moral worlds.

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

Rising political tribalism, shamelessly exaggerating our opponents' claims or behavior, is leaving us vulnerable: No one loves America's internal fighting - and our increasingly siloed news consumption - more than Vladimir Putin.

I'm sure there are people wearing Bullet Club shirts who don't even know what it is. It's one of those kind of things, but that's good.

Now brotherhood in most of the myths I know of is confined to a bounded community. In bounded communities, aggression is projected outward.

We can recognize, moreover, that a move beyond our tribalism never happens in the ordinary. It takes a miracle, or a jolt, or a gift, or killing (as in Charleston) to awaken us from our tribal numbness, to see and act afresh.

I've reluctantly reached after years of watching my old "team" transform into a baying mob of hysterical puritans—a feral gang that sows division through identity politics and encourages societal tribes to rank themselves in a pecking order of "oppression.

For small Indian tribes, this policy was literally genocidal. One physician that "[a]ll the pureblood women of the Kaw tribe of Oklahoma have now been sterilized. At the end of the generation the tribe will cease to exist.

bigotry: leftover component from the days of tribalism, when there were just two groups of people, us and them.

Human nature favors the tribal. Tribalism engenders violence. It was ever thus and so it will ever be.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

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

For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

The point is that racism is the product of tribalism and ignorance and both are falling victim to communications and world-around literacy

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.