Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 353 authors

We may... have to relinquish the notion, explicit or implicit, that changes of paradigm carry scientists and those who learn from them closer and closer… — Thomas Kuhn
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary,… — Ludwig von Mises
Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a… — Lyall Watson
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to… — George Will
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive… — Steven Pinker
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and… — Vladimir Putin
What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of them is in any sense ancestral to… — Richard Dawkins
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed… — Elliott Abrams
In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very… — David Gerrold
Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set. — Luciano Vincenzoni
My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good… — Sue Townsend
The Rosicrucians teach that all great religions have been given to the people among whom they are found, by Divine Intelligences who designed each system… — Max Heindel
Generally the aesthetics of broadcast journalism seem to me to be incredibly primitive. — Ira Glass
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness. — Chris Toumazou
Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at its best, is more egalitarian than elitist and… — Mitch Kapor
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art. — Mark Rothko
St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever… — John Strachan
But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. — Paul Harris
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. — Hedda Hopper
You see, every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear… — George Wald

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