"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes. — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions (and most others) are much the same – Islam, Christianity… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Humans are primitive in their thoughts because of their drastic deviation from the original truths about spiritual and moral conduct.” — Antar- The Secret of the Infinite Intelligence Copy Share Image
They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment… — Don Everly Copy Share Image
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
The English monarchy is at best symbolic, whereas the Saudi monarchy is a bloodline, but it's also showing itself as a very… — James Wasserman Copy Share Image
Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have… — William James Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies… — Sayyid Qutb Copy Share Image
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry;… — Katharine Hamnett Copy Share Image
We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early… — Augustus Napier Copy Share Image
I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using… — Sigurd F. Olson Copy Share Image
The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human — not just primitive — that we all have hearts that beat at a steady… — Michael Torke Copy Share Image
![“[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.” quote by Rose Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/67f/rose-macaulay-8071_belief_religion-is-a-primitive-insurance-agains_2173210.jpg)
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![“Not only do our wives need support, but our children need our deep involvement in their lives. If this period [the early years] ofprimitive needs and primitive caretaking passes without us, it is lost forever. We can be involved in other ways, but never again on this profoundly intimate level.” quote by Augustus Napier](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3a2/augustus-napier-54501_caretaking_not-only-do-our-wives-need-support-but-o_2399582.jpg){kind=icon}
