How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
The average beast of prey is a decent creature who merely kills for the sake of food or in a fight against… — Gilbert Murray 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
The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive. — Marc Maron 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
How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry. — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as primitive in the way Western education has traditionally conditioned people to perceive it.” — Gregory Cajete 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
In every human society of which we have any record, there are those who teach and those who learn, for learning a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet.… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
Small children smoking, and the mother is not aware that it is because the breast has been taken away. In all primitive… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely… — Christina Stead 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
I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive. — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted.… — David Byrne Copy Share Image