The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails. — Rick Yancey 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
The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and… — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
But when the group is literally capable of changing our perceptions, and when to stand alone is to activate primitive, powerful, and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 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
Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
One of the first sights that shocked me, when I came to Israel in 1921, was an Arab turning over a field… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment… — Don Everly Copy Share Image
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Civilization’ is just a word! There is a touch of indirect ‘racism’ in it. It unjustly means that the primitive people were… — Md. Ziaul Haque Copy Share Image
A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain… — Jane Goodall 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
If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive.… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
“Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our… — Kay Hooper 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
Storytelling, a primitive art, is as old as the beginning of mankind. People want to receive what's out there in the form… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you.… — Helen Fisher 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
Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
![“[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.” quote by Rose Macaulay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/67f/rose-macaulay-8071_belief_religion-is-a-primitive-insurance-agains_2173210.jpg)
