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
Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we… — Eubie Blake Copy Share Image
“Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands,… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as varied. Like wine, it is… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'. — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a… — Ugo Betti Copy Share Image
Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still… — Charles Kay Ogden Copy Share Image
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. There is no field that you… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies,… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
We runners are all a little nutty, but we're good people who just want to enjoy our healthy, primitive challenge. Others may… — John J. Kelley Copy Share Image
People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together.… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
“Please don’t be fooled by the word primitive. Although it conjures up images of backward people, over the past eighty years research… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all… — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share Image
[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
![“During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced since consciousness emerged from its Paleolithic phase. Even the most primitive tribes have a larger vision of the universe, of our place and functioning…” quote by Thomas Berry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/64a/thomas-berry-7391_celestial_during-this-period-of-technological-conf_237540.jpg)
![“Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.” quote by Erich Fromm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5e6/erich-fromm-367_contact_many-students-of-dreams-from-plato-to-si_2487746.jpg)
![“[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.” quote by Van Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e4/van-morrison-1192_art_rock-n-roll-is-still-a-primitive-form-an_465023.jpg)
