Primitive Quotes · Page 7

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

— Tanith Lee

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

— Camille Paglia

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

— Jean Baudrillard

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

— Henry Noel Brailsford

“...seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]”

— Elias Canetti

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

— Rick Yancey

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

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Mark Rothko

There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races…

— Anonymous

Animism is far from primitive, nor is it about pre-modernity because animism does not serve as a precursor to modernity. Rather animism…

— Graham Harvey

People have stopped battling in hip hop, in the primitive sense, and the focus of the competitive element has shifted to the…

— Nas

Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem…

— Martha Stout

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…

— Sylvia Plath

It is one thing to say, "Some men shall rule," quite another to declare, "All men shall rule," and that in virtue…

— Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may…

— Henry David Thoreau

After developing a primitive theory (1968) I therefore did not pursue this subject. However, the work was taken up by others and…

— Simon van der Meer

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up…

— Jim Morrison

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a…

— Dave Eggers

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success.…

— Richard Matheson

Comics play a trite but lusty tune on the C natural keys of human nature. They rouse the most primitive, but also…

— William Moulton Marston

If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive…

— Walt Disney

I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about…

— William Gibson

Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;…

— Vivian Gornick

Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence…

— James G. Frazer

In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can…

— Martinus Beijerinck

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one…

— Margaret Mead

Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men…

— Terence McKenna

And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by…

— Robert Boyle

“There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for…

— J. Anderson Thomson Jr

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

— Jim Butcher

“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Hortense Powdermaker

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

— Kim Harrison

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

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Dave Matthews

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

— Susan Mitchell