Power Quote by Calvin Coolidge

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

— Thomas Jefferson

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they…

— Jean Dubuffet

“Some primitive peoples, like the Veddahs of Ceylon, had no dwellings at all, and were content with the earth and the sky; some, like…

— Will Durant

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

— Max Frisch

“Counter-culture celebrates the supposedly natural life of primitive peoples. Its members wear beads, headbands, body paint, and colorful tattered clothing; they yearn to be…

— Marvin Harris

“Please don’t be fooled by the word primitive. Although it conjures up images of backward people, over the past eighty years research has shown…

— Anonymous

It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before…

— Chapman Cohen

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

— Stewart Udall

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

— Robert Graves

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The…

— Stewart Udall

Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in…

— David Harvey