... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
If you can't write freely and if you can't speak freely in your country, you can be sure that you are living… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If a country has a fascist leader, this is a great horror for that country; but there is much greater horror: The… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses.… — Carole Katchen Copy Share Image
In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would… — Anandi Gopal Joshi Copy Share Image
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from… — Albert Speer Copy Share Image
How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and… — Carolee Schneemann Copy Share Image
I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely… — Hans Kung 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
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
I begged her, 'Please don't leave me stranded in the middle of some primitive zarking forest with no medical help and a… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan… — Edward Leedskalnin Copy Share Image
[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. — Frank X. Barron Copy Share Image
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
If you go and watch the way the primitive tribes live, you will know what work is in relation to celebration. They… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial… — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'. — Willis Harman Copy Share Image
CENTAUR, n. One of a race of persons who lived before the division of labor had been carried to such a pitch… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, 'Isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs… — Eubie Blake Copy Share Image
An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship,… — Terry Southern Copy Share Image
If you don't like an idea, put another idea against it! If you use your fist against an idea that you don't… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
“I will produce a lowly Primitive; "Man" shall be his name. I will create a Primitive Worker; He will be charged with… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
What is your dream? To be the most famous man in the world? What a stupid dream you have! To conquer the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image