Primitive Quotes · Page 21

I like druggy downtown kids who spray paint walls and trains. I like their lack of training, their primitive technique. I think…

— Lou Reed

“A great deal of various cultural elements naturally grew from a real need of responding to [mostly] human psychology and biology, with…

— Monaristw

[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the…

— Rose Macaulay

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

— Isaac Asimov

It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes…

— Isaac Newton

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the…

— Brian Eno

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

Even the most primitive of societies have an innate respect for the insane

— SE Hinton

To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is…

— Henry David Thoreau

[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation.…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive…

— Rod Liddle

Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

This weapon [an ax] is primitive but effective. And it's also guaranteed to be fifty-percent painless. You see, it takes two people…

— Alfred Hitchcock

You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the…

— Asger Jorn

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But…

— Barbara Hepworth

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

— Rose Macaulay

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

— Robert Hughes

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

— Tanith Lee

“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’…

— E. Anne Mackay

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was…

— Bob Fosse

To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we…

— Sri Aurobindo

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed…

— Auguste Comte

Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be…

— Carl Jung