The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Without the parallel development of systems of monetary - and credit-based exchange - there could have been no development of economies beyond… — Peter Dicken Copy Share Image
To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder,… — Barbara Ess Copy Share Image
If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that… — Alvin Boyd Kuhn Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I don't have a favorite I like and then I'll go and watch "Days of Heaven" and I go how beautiful is… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
But the fact that the word "chattel" has survived as the inclusive legal term for all movable goods, points, not merely to… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn’t the fact that they were primitive —… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe… — Scott Dikkers Copy Share Image
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools,… — Jay Severin Copy Share Image
The fact that illness is associated with the poor --who are, from the perspective of the privileged, aliens in one's midst --reinforces… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no… — Al Diamond Copy Share Image
And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive… — Aaron Siskind Copy Share Image
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Art used to be painting, sculpture, music, etc, but now, all technology has become art. Of course, this form of art is… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation… — Richard Evans Schultes Copy Share Image
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the… — James Madison 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
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the… — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living,… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
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