Primitive Quotes · Page 7

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

— Albert Einstein

“As a matter of fact, the methods of primitive accumulation are anything but idyllic.”

— Karl Marx

“boolean logic is often too primitive to try and express what we're trying to express.”

— Anonymous

“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

We have grown from primitive man into modern ways and are now looking for modern humans from merely primitive choices

— Alexander Fennis

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

— Judith Viorst

The freedom of cross country is so primitive. It's woman vs. nature.

— Lynn Jennings

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone.…

— Ellen Glasgow

I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic…

— Chris Toumazou

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb…

— Jack London

In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many…

— Stanislaw Ulam

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next,…

— Victor Hugo

“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

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

Long before the first primitive dot matrix printers started cranking out phenomenally ugly text with a resolution marginally better than braille, it's…

— Charles Platt

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus],…

— Robert Barron

“By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance…

— John Wesley

We are so accustomed to the apparently rational nature of our world that we can scarcely imagine anything happening that cannot be…

— Carl Jung

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But…

— Barbara Hepworth

Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even…

— Robert Scheer

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am…

— Rebecca West

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

“Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order.…

— Algernon Blackwood

“The old adage that people only want what they can’t have or what they can’t tame— is totally primitive. A being of…

— C. JoyBell C

Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a…

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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

Life, from beginning to end, is fear. Yes, it is pain, yes, it is desire, but more than anything it is fear;…

— Vivian Gornick

I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about…

— William Gibson

If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way…

— Hermann Hesse

“Vengeance is primitive; which is why only two species in the universe practice it: humans and animals.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

— Ingrid Bengis

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

— Norman Mailer

We have grown as primitive man to modern ways and are now looking for modern man to grow from merely primitive choices

— Alexander Fennis

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.

— Tanith Lee

Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality.

— Ayn Rand

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

— Robert Mankoff