The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid I give it a rivet, hold… — Aceyalone Copy Share Image
Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the… — Rachel Carson 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
the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive. — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Music is thousands and thousands of years old and I don't think that basic, primitive connection to the language of music ever… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people… — Anna Freud Copy Share Image
