Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but… — Charmian Clift Copy Share Image
Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of… — George Will Copy Share Image
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate… — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly… — H. A. Guerber Copy Share Image
Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite I like and then I'll go and watch "Days of Heaven" and I go how beautiful is… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some… — Walter Truett Anderson Copy Share Image
Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
“Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
“The old adage that people only want what they can’t have or what they can’t tame— is totally primitive. A being of… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you.… — Roy Sesana Copy Share Image
The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do… — Elizabeth Fishel Copy Share Image
Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A primitive education can only create primitive generations! An outdated mentality will produce merely an outdated minds! The door of the future… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
