Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness. — Todd Duncan Copy Share Image
“What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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 age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber — Rowan Pelling Copy Share Image
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do… — Elizabeth Fishel Copy Share Image
The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds. — Robert Hughes 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
Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers,… — Horace 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
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
A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose… — D. W Brogan Copy Share Image
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Whatever experimental film aromas cloaked my movies were because I'm a gleefully clumsy, primitive filmmaker. I really like traditional pleasingly narrative films,… — Guy Maddin 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
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling… — A.M. Homes 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
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on… — Charles Nicolle Copy Share Image
To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
When a Pueblo Indian does not feel in the right mood, he stays away from the men's council. When an ancient Roman… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
“Can you be sure that others have not come before you and destroyed the pristine state of the native myth? Can you… — Carl Sagan 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
Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. — Ira Glass 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
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind. — James Mark Baldwin 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
Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye. — Susan Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive. — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
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
