Hugh Hefner Quotes

Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.

The associations inside the group become more important than those outside.

So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

I think the fact that us as a race still continues to be very tribal and we haven't really moved away from that over hundreds and hundreds of years of experience.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

What everyone knows" is the line between us and them.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

People want to be with their own and want to be separated from others.

All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

Primates are hardwired for us/them dichotomies. Our brains detect them in less than 100 milliseconds.

The capacity for humans to come up with ever-increasingly granular in-group versus out-group demarcations is truly breathtaking.

I don't see tribalism ever really disappearing entirely. I just think that people are almost hardwired to identify as groups. And that sort of group identity always runs the risk of being chauvinistic.

People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.

The people who listened to rock 'n' roll, I thought, were bound together against the people who didn't listen to rock 'n' roll. That, of course, didn't work at all. Your taste in rock 'n' roll does not say anything about you, morally or otherwise.

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages.

A poet must sing for his own people.

People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.