In-Group/Out-Group Quotes

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

In every high school, there is a clique.

It's a clique and I think a clique exists in every business. There's a circle of people that are guaranteed to open a movie and we all know their names and whether they're right or wrong for the role.

The key thing about us is that we all belong to multiple tribes. Even if we are predisposed into dividing the world into 'us' and 'them,' it's incredibly easy to manipulate us as to who is an 'us' and who is a 'them' at any given moment.

It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.

Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

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

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

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.

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

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

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