Primitive Quotes · Page 2

“All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.”

— Jack L. Chalker

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

— Paul Klee

The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get…

— G. E. M. Anscombe

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

— William Dean Howells

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

— Helen Vendler

The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

— Lynn Jennings

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

— E. J. Hughes

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

— Anne Lamott

Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive.

— Ira Glass

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with…

— Christina Stead

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

— John Thomas Sladek

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.

— Anonymous

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

— Abigail Adams

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

— James G. Frazer

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history.

— Fatos Nano

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

— Stewart Udall

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

— Dave Eggers

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success.…

— Richard Matheson

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

— Masanobu Fukuoka

Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up…

— Jim Morrison

I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive…

— Walt Disney

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music,…

— Bruce Springsteen

We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only…

— Carl Jung

In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman…

— Carl Jung

But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in…

— Nick Hornby

An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we…

— John Dewey

How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We…

— Ai Weiwei

As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many…

— Joseph Priestley

You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes…

— Rod Serling

We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn’t the fact that they were primitive —…

— Paul Krugman

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

— Henry Morton Stanley

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

— Norman Mailer

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

— Robert Wyatt

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

— Mike Tyson

“No matter how primitive a community is, it is against any type of oppression.”

— Suwardi Surjaningrat

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

— Don DeLillo

“I longed for Mum in the most primitive way.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.

— Pierre Klossowski