Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 366 authors

Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years. — Malcolm Allison
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing… — Desmond Morris
I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there… — Sigurd F. Olson
The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of… — Charles Kay Ogden
True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same. — Pope Pius XII
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. — Russ Feingold
The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable. — Sigmund Freud
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the… — Adolf Hitler
They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,' and so, under… — Pope Leo XIII
Environmental policies are driven by a kind of emotional spiritualism that threatens the very foundation of our society. There is increasing evidence of a government-sponsored… — Helen Chenoweth-Hage
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon… — Hamlin Garland
Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility… — Louis Bernacchi
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union. — James Madison
The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of… — Noah Webster
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one,… — Maurice Maeterlinck
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive… — Alice Walker
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles,… — Stephen Leacock
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the… — Jean Baudrillard
How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry. — Mike Tyson
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive… — Christopher Hyatt

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