Primitive Quotes · Page 6

The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses.

— Albert Einstein

“No matter how primitive a community is, it is against any type of oppression.”

— Suwardi Surjaningrat

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

— Mike Tyson

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

— Karen Marie Moning

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

— Benjamin Franklin

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

— Mahathir Mohamad

“Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beings as men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.”

— Toba Beta

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

— Rose Macaulay

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

— Aldo Leopold

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to…

— Charles Petzold

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of…

— Jane Addams

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

— Stephen Leacock

Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I…

— Nelson Mandela

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner…

— Arthur Keith

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

Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will…

— Jeff Schweitzer

“Take delight on a woman’s pubic hair for its a signature of maturity and a secretive covenant . . . the hair…

— John Shelton Jones

By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison.…

— Stephen King

The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we…

— Eubie Blake

During this period (of technological confinement / [and language]) the human mind has been placed in its narrowest confines it has experienced…

— Thomas Berry

It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply…

— Michel Houellebecq

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation…

— Adolf Hitler

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

The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return…

— Thomas Sprat

“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and…

— Jack London

In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote…

— Richard Dawkins

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

“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’…

— E. Anne Mackay

“have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the heart of man is totally corrupt? How could…

— John Dewey

Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities…

— Malidoma Patrice Some

When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

— Rick Yancey

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

— Adolf Hitler

“...seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]”

— Elias Canetti

“Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In Hollywood, primitive magical thinking exists side by side with the most advanced technology.

— Hortense Powdermaker

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

— Kim Harrison

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

— Mark Rothko

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

— Jim Butcher