If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.
Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.
Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.
No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so remote as to be forgotten. But they trample with their heavy boots over the sensitive, delicate susceptibilities of an ancient, highly civilized and cultured nation, such as India.
We are the sum of all people we have ever met; you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.
Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.
We are Italian. We are all little tribes - not only in fashion, but also in music - in everything, basically.
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.
If you move between battalions, you are still within the same tribe.
Thank you for keeping it a secret. There aren't many of those in this tribe.
You don't have enough time to be both unhappy & mediocre. It's not just pointless; it's painful.
It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians. . . who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.
I liked the Beastie Boys and A Tribe Called Quest and Cypress Hill.
If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi. . . in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.
Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.
Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.