Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 353 authors

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden. — Amos Bronson Alcott
[T]he direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare… — Charles Lindbergh
Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of… — Bill Vaughan
When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a… — Emma Goldman
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims… — George Steiner
With a lot of what we take to be true feelings, especially on pop records, we feel them because they're cleverly crafted. And because the… — David Byrne
What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I… — Anna Freud
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder… — John W. Gardner
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive… — Jane Goodall
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Good music is very close to primitive language. — Denis Diderot
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow… — Roger Ebert
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own… — Havelock Ellis
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. — Ed Koch
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. — Stephen Leacock
Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. — Norman Mailer
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. — Grandma Moses
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in… — Albert J. Nock

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