Nature of man Quote by Alexander Fennis

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

— Alexander Fennis

“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to…

— Frank Herbert

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

— Seneca the Younger

“The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones.…

— Anonymous

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

— Charles Baudelaire

We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your…

— Roy Sesana

I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is…

— Bret Easton Ellis

As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you,…

— Jack London

“It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways of living…

— Alexis Carrel

“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new…

— Yuval Noah Harari

This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.

— Frederick Lenz

Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population,…

— Paul MacCready