“Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beings as men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive. — Mahathir Mohamad 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
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have… — Anonymous 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
Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Things is very primitive in the jungle - no place to shit, sleep on the ground like an animal, eat out of… — Winston Groom 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
The idea that rhythm is intrinsically human — not just primitive — that we all have hearts that beat at a steady… — Michael Torke Copy Share Image
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will. If you're right 90% of the time, why quibble about the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it.… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will… — John Carroll 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
“boolean logic is often too primitive to try and express what we're trying to express.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness. — Marie-Louise von Franz 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
“It was like he was a caveman grunting, "You woman. Me man. Let’s make babies together.” — Missy Lyons 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
Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here. — Frederick Lenz 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
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
Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the… — Juan Goytisolo 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
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and… — Vine Deloria Jr Copy Share Image
