Quotes about Primitive

Primitive does not mean stupid. Votes: 3

Primitive societies without religion have never been found. Votes: 3

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! Votes: 3

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images. Votes: 3

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that. Votes: 3

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism! Votes: 3

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth. Votes: 3

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could, Votes: 3

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church. Votes: 3

Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects. Votes: 3

The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies. Votes: 3

Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent. Votes: 3

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. Votes: 3

The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems. Votes: 3

Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth. Votes: 3

There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods. Votes: 3

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Votes: 3

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant. Votes: 2

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. Votes: 2

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. Votes: 2

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. Votes: 2

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. Votes: 2

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. Votes: 2

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back. Votes: 2

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have. Votes: 2

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness. Votes: 2

The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no more primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live. Votes: 2

Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way. It's hard to escape your culture. Votes: 2

The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this. Votes: 2

Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer. Votes: 2

We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.' Votes: 2

under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being. Votes: 2

I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living. Votes: 2

I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we? Votes: 2

Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child. Votes: 2

Good music is very close to primitive language. Votes: 1

I am the primitive of the method I have invented. Votes: 1

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. Votes: 1

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. Votes: 1

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. Votes: 1

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. Votes: 1

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. Votes: 1

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. Votes: 1

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. Votes: 1

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. Votes: 1

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct. Votes: 1

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. Votes: 1

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state. Votes: 1

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Votes: 1

For so long, the mainstays of cancer treatment have been chemotherapy and radiation. They're toxic and primitive. We need to look at it in a rational way and say, how can we help the body heal itself? Votes: 1

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. Votes: 1

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. Votes: 1

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. Votes: 1

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. Votes: 1

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. Votes: 1

What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to any other; none of them is more primitive than any other. We are all modern races of exactly equal status, evolutionarily speaking. Votes: 1

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain. Votes: 1

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page. Votes: 1

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. Votes: 1

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions. Votes: 0

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen. Votes: 0

Food is the most primitive form of comfort. Votes: 0

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. Votes: 0

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures. Votes: 0

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. Votes: 0

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. Votes: 0

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics. Votes: 0

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous. Votes: 0

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery. Votes: 0

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers. Votes: 0

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. Votes: 0

The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.... Votes: 0

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite. Votes: 0

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication. Votes: 0

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear. Votes: 0

It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change. Votes: 0

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive. Votes: 0

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive. Votes: 0

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods. Votes: 0

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. Votes: 0

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. Votes: 0

Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness. Votes: 0

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts. Votes: 0

The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature. Votes: 0

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul. Votes: 0

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive." Votes: 0

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress. Votes: 0

You cannot control the primitive urges and hormones that drive your eating behavior. Votes: 0

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers. Votes: 0

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my primitive passion). Votes: 0

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry. Votes: 0

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist. Votes: 0

In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology. Votes: 0

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience. Votes: 0

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation. Votes: 0

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight. Votes: 0

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth. Votes: 0

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New jersey. Votes: 0

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film. Votes: 0

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished. Votes: 0

Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments. Votes: 0

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. Votes: 0

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish. Votes: 0

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness. Votes: 0

Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear ... Votes: 0

Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. Votes: 0

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man. Votes: 0

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. Votes: 0

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive. Votes: 0

When you love something, you seek to learn its primitive form and also its concentrated form. Votes: 0

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye. Votes: 0

The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act. Votes: 0

Playing the cello did feel nicely neolithic, or at least a civilized way to process the primitive. Votes: 0

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. Votes: 0

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive. Votes: 0

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. Votes: 0

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms. Votes: 0

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic Votes: 0

This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here. Votes: 0

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. Votes: 0

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea. Votes: 0

But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. Votes: 0

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. Votes: 0

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. Votes: 0

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes." Votes: 0

It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex. Votes: 0

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. Votes: 0

They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it. Votes: 0

Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with. Votes: 0

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it. Votes: 0

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. Votes: 0

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it. Votes: 0

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. Votes: 0

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? Votes: 0

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive. Votes: 0

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. Votes: 0

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one. Votes: 0

Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible. Votes: 0

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. Votes: 0

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber Votes: 0

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. Votes: 0

...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious. Votes: 0

Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears. Votes: 0

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. Votes: 0

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. Votes: 0

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism. Votes: 0

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in. Votes: 0

The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control. Votes: 0

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. Votes: 0

True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same. Votes: 0

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility. Votes: 0

Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education. Votes: 0

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled. Votes: 0

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history. Votes: 0

Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set. Votes: 0

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization. Votes: 0

The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'. Votes: 0

The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events Votes: 0

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. Votes: 0

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. Votes: 0

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'. Votes: 0

I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. Votes: 0

All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'. Votes: 0

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds. Votes: 0

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. Votes: 0

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. Votes: 0

Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind. Votes: 0

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development. Votes: 0

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners. Votes: 0

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. Votes: 0

Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence. Votes: 0

Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever changes. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man." Votes: 0

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. Votes: 0

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen. Votes: 0

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches. Votes: 0

A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations. Votes: 0

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool. Votes: 0

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man Votes: 0

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques. Votes: 0

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness. Votes: 0

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. Votes: 0

Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains. Votes: 0

But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages. Votes: 0

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me. Votes: 0

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years. Votes: 0

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. Votes: 0

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. Votes: 0

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life. Votes: 0

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death. Votes: 0

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life. Votes: 0

... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities. Votes: 0

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples. Votes: 0

Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone. Votes: 0

Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie. Votes: 0

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought. Votes: 0

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it. Votes: 0

Petronius was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible." Votes: 0

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about Votes: 0

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world. Votes: 0

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden. Votes: 0

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization. Votes: 0

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. Votes: 0

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression. Votes: 0

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work. Votes: 0

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established. Votes: 0

You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves. Votes: 0

The modesty of women, which, in its most primitive form among animals, is based on sexual periodicity, is, with that periodicity, an essential condition of courtship. Votes: 0

Thousands of years ago--in times we are fond of calling "primitive" (since this renders us "modern" without having to exert ourselves further to earn this qualification)... Votes: 0

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It's called Denial." Votes: 0

Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Votes: 0

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality. Votes: 0

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day. Votes: 0

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise. Votes: 0

Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility. Votes: 0

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. Votes: 0

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right. Votes: 0

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe. Votes: 0

The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams. Votes: 0

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world. Votes: 0

Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. Votes: 0

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial. Votes: 0

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare. Votes: 0

I'm quite sure primitive people have no difficulties surviving in a place like this, and think of all the things we have that our rude forefathers lacked. Votes: 0

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. Votes: 0

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe. Votes: 0

If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living in a very primitive country! Votes: 0

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof. Votes: 0

Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But convictions, nonetheless. Votes: 0

A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die." Votes: 0

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed. Votes: 0

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. Votes: 0

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less. Votes: 0

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque. Votes: 0

Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God. Votes: 0

When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre. Votes: 0

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there. Votes: 0

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain. Votes: 0

Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated. Votes: 0

Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it. Votes: 0

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity. Votes: 0

All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music? Votes: 0

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments. Votes: 0

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition. Votes: 0

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later. Votes: 0

Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes. Votes: 0

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state. Votes: 0

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. Votes: 0

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded. Votes: 0

Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form of stories, not just facts, opinion, analysis. Votes: 0

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today. Votes: 0

Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form. Votes: 0

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that. Votes: 0

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had. Votes: 0

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light. Votes: 0

The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated. Votes: 0

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group. Votes: 0

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant ... Votes: 0

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that. Votes: 0

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. Votes: 0

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood. Votes: 0

This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States. Votes: 0

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion. Votes: 0

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and in 1974 the first experiments were done in the ISR. Votes: 0

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart. Votes: 0

You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws. Votes: 0

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it's absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit. Votes: 0

I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress. Votes: 0

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life. Votes: 0

The kiss intimately relates to the most primitive kind of human contact, which can satisfy all of our needs, like: feeding, enjoying pleasure, tasting, wanting, rejecting, everything we associate with love. Votes: 0

Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple. Votes: 0

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards"”to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state. Votes: 0

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life. Votes: 0

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. Votes: 0

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table. Votes: 0

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself. Votes: 0

Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Votes: 0

Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity. Votes: 0

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. Votes: 0

It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America. Votes: 0

If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't like, you only prove how horribly primitive you are! Votes: 0

The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive savagery, medieval fanaticism and modern totalitarianism. Votes: 0

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct. Votes: 0

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that. Votes: 0

Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is still very primitive, but it is slowly replacing reality. Votes: 0

If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you. Votes: 0

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history. Votes: 0

Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange there could have been no development of economies beyond the most primitive organizational forms and the most geographically restricted sales. Votes: 0

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts. Votes: 0

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy. Votes: 0

When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive. Votes: 0

Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile! Votes: 0

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think it hurts you, when you stay too long in school. Votes: 0

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best? Votes: 0

In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal. Votes: 0

The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion. Votes: 0

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. Votes: 0

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax. Votes: 0

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. Votes: 0

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs. Votes: 0

If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The existence of ignorant and unethical masses who support that primitive leader! Votes: 0

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity. Votes: 0

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. Votes: 0

A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture. Votes: 0

Whoever is afraid must needs be dependent; a weak thing needs support. That is why the primitive mind, from deep psychological necessity, begot religious instruction and embodied it in a magician or a priest. Votes: 0

Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness. Votes: 0

St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church. Votes: 0

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. Votes: 0

If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us? Votes: 0

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. Votes: 0

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids! Votes: 0

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me. Votes: 0

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear. Votes: 0

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France. Votes: 0

Id me didn't have to be concerned with long-term consequences. He was my instinctive, primitive self, driven by my most primal impulses. I wondered, briefly, if 'id' and 'idiot' came from the same root. Votes: 0

One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid by a monoamine oxidase inhibitor. Pure experimentation? Perhaps not. Votes: 0

The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces the association of illness with the foreign with an exotic, often primitive place. Votes: 0

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test. Votes: 0

In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level. Votes: 0

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo. Votes: 0

There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself. Votes: 0

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art. Votes: 0

Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses. In urban life especially, there is too much to see, hear and smell. Votes: 0

Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't. Votes: 0

Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet but it does mean huge involvement in everybody else's affairs. Votes: 0

Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies. Votes: 0

Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing. Votes: 0

You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this planet; and that is about three billion years. Votes: 0

The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws. Votes: 0