The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder,… — Barbara Ess Copy Share Image
Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that… — Alvin Boyd Kuhn Copy Share Image
St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Against all the opposition in the world, I make this statement - that once I knew a magician. I was a witness… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
The civilized nations--Greece, Rome, England--have been sustained by the primitive forests which anciently rotted where they stand. They survive as long as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“I will produce a lowly Primitive; "Man" shall be his name. I will create a Primitive Worker; He will be charged with… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
![“...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise - as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.” quote by Barbara Ess](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/989/barbara-ess-72196_cameras_i-use-primal-imagery-so-maybe-it-s-fitti_1908833.jpg)
![“The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.” quote by Chaim Weizmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/75c/chaim-weizmann-27625_believe_the-poor-ignorant-fellah-arabic-for-peas_74345.jpg)
![“[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/594/anonymous-1_common_in-the-universe-it-may-be-that-primitive_132032.jpg)
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