Archaic Quotes

70 Archaic quotes by 64 unique authors

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
The 'drugs or surgery only approach that modern medicine uses to treat today's diseases is archaic. — Julian Whitaker
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu
Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence that contradicts their… — David G. McAfee
Human beings are born and begin their evolution through the great spiral of consciousness, moving from archaic to magic to mythic to rational to perhaps… — Ken Wilber
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of… — Harold Bloom
You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace… — Chris Cooper
All the old bindings are broken. Cosmological centers now are anywhere and everywhere. The earth is a heavenly body, most beautiful of all, and all… — Joseph Campbell
Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. — Carl Jung
Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about… — Camille
Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments -… — Dianna Agron
Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no… — Tom Robbins
If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beautiful, but what comes to your mind is… — Michael Steinhardt
Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how… — Jim Rash
The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are… — Larry Sabato
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition… — Thorstein Veblen
The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people's radar, and… — Billy Gibbons
I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive. — Andrew Bird
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of… — Theodor Adorno
Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew… — Francois Hollande
Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power… — Camille Paglia
Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures… — Peter York
Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which… — Peter York
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to… — Paula Gunn Allen

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