Sins of the Tribe Quotes

“When you find yourself completely powerless, take comfort: At your darkest hour, your character will find power within you.”
― Mark A. Salter, Sins of the Tribe

“Look around, tribes are everywhere, the wealthy join country clubs, the working class join unions. Poor urban kids join gangs and rich suburban kids join frats and sororities. Of course, the most prominent tribes of our day are defined by religion and ethnicity and it’s tearing our national civility apart. Think of an inner-city child born into horrible conditions. For him, a street gang may be the only path to survival, at least in the moment.”
― Mark A. Salter, Sins of the Tribe

“We all think we’re self-aware, self-driven by our objective intellect, but we’re not. We’re closer to being robots driven by our evolutionary roots with just a sprinkling of free will and intellect. It’s a self-reinforcing dynamic; those that didn’t have a strong survival instinct perished, as did their bloodline. You and I are only here because thousands of generations have weeded out all those except for the ones that somehow figured out how to survive long enough to reproduce.”
― Mark A. Salter, Sins of the Tribe