The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a…

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The…

— Stewart Udall

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.

— Robert Graves

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

— Calvin Coolidge

It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before…

— Chapman Cohen

“Some primitive peoples, like the Veddahs of Ceylon, had no dwellings at all, and were content with the earth and the sky; some, like…

— Will Durant

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!

— Max Frisch

“Counter-culture celebrates the supposedly natural life of primitive peoples. Its members wear beads, headbands, body paint, and colorful tattered clothing; they yearn to be…

— Marvin Harris

“Please don’t be fooled by the word primitive. Although it conjures up images of backward people, over the past eighty years research has shown…

— Anonymous

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they…

— Jean Dubuffet

Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a…

— Henry David Thoreau

Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as…

— Stuart Dybek

The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the…

— Dennis Kucinich

Political struggle is the most important thing any of us can do as a citizen in a democracy; and that means the old joining…

— Jonathan Kozol

If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck