Top 19 Quotes About Tribal Culture: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Tribal Culture

#1. Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great rapidity.

Richard Flanagan

#2. I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

Sherman Alexie

#3. Phones are only good for ordering pizza and telling someone you're running late

Amy Reed

#4. One-on-one revenge was common in foraging societies, and kin-against-kin blood feuds were common in tribal societies that had not been pacified by a colonial or national government, particularly if they had an exaggerated culture of manly honor.

Steven Pinker

#5. Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We've lost this knowledge as a culture.

Luis J. Rodriguez

#6. There are no shortcuts through the wilderness of life.

Seth Adam Smith

#7. It's not enough to say it's shocking, it's appalling, and to condemn only individual acts. We need to challenge and bring down the tribal honor-and-shame culture as codified in the Islamic religion.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#8. A two thousand years old culture is being replaced by Arab Bedouin culture in the name of Islam. Cheegha, The Call is a lone voice against the threat to the tribal way of life, the ways of the fathers.

Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur

#9. Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture.

Bryan Fischer

#10. Enjoy the moment, this is all we have at this moment. This moment is our life.

Debasish Mridha

#11. We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

Wilma Mankiller

#12. I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There's nice things in that. It's culture; it's roots for me.

Paul Weller

#13. The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#14. I read that Buddha was able to see all of his past lives, and I realized the only way any of these people could do that is by being outside of time.

Fred Alan Wolf