... I know a number of Western children who would benefit…

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

— Connie Zweig

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.

— Peter Farb

“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and even in…

— Jack London

Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who…

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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

— Dave Eggers

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…

— Marshall McLuhan

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.…

— Douglas Adams

Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical…

— Tom Robbins

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of…

— Robert Barron

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined…

— Juan Goytisolo

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't…

— Michael Schultz

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…

— Stacy Schiff

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage…

— Henry David Thoreau

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They…

— John Wayne

Life on a small farm might seem primitive, but by living such a life we become able to discover the Great Path. I believe…

— Masanobu Fukuoka