Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 353 authors

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny,… — Phillip Noyce
Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go… — Colin Quinn
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of… — Herbert Read
The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've… — Bruce Springsteen
The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times,… — Lewis Thomas
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 land… — Stewart Udall
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when… — Kurt Vonnegut
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive,… — Helen Fisher
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is… — Albert Einstein
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking… — Mark Twain
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear. — Don DeLillo
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which… — Nick Hornby
under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have… — Robert Anton Wilson
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal… — Dave Eggers
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. — Don DeLillo
I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating… — Bret Easton Ellis
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting… — Douglas Adams
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still… — Albert Einstein
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to… — Stephen Hawking

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