“If the race is in danger of being oppressed or even exterminated the question of legality is only of secondary importance. The established power may in such a case employ only those means which are recognized as 'legal.’ yet the instinct of self-preservation on the part of the oppressed will always…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“It is a sign of their rising confidence and sense of security that at a time when one section is still playing the German, French-man, or Englishman, the other with open effrontery comes out as the Jewish race.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“People are willing to accept you if they see you as an outsider trying to assimilate into their world. But when they see you as a fellow tribe member attempting to disavow the tribe, that is something they will never forgive.”— Trevor Noah, amazon.com
“Do you think our obsession with borders and national identity is holding us back from creating a global egalitarian society or are we, as animals in a world of scarce resources, simply destined for a life of tribal infighting?”— Zander Lehmann, Alex Cole, Tommy Dewey, imdb.com
“Tribalism was an urge our Founding Fathers assumed we could overcome. And so it has become our greatest vulnerability.”— Andrew Sullivan, nymag.com
“One of the great attractions of tribalism is that you don’t actually have to think very much. All you need to know on any given subject is which side you’re on.”— Andrew Sullivan, nymag.com
“The alphabet (and its extension into typography) made possible the spread of the power that is knowledge, and shattered the bonds of tribal man, thus exploding him into an agglomeration of individuals. Electric writing and speed pour upon him, instantaneously and continuously, the concerns of all ot…”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com
“If the public is balkanized, and if different groups are designing their own preferred communications packages, the consequence will be not merely the same but still more balkanization, as group members move one another toward more extreme points in line with their initial tendencies. At the same ti…”— Cass R. Sunstein, amazon.com