Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 366 authors

I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. — Nathan Seiberg
We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from. — Debbie Harry
I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races… — Stephen Hawking
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But… — Bill Maher
The world's most 'primitive' people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it… — Marshall Sahlins
I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which… — Bapsi Sidhwa
Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education. — Albert Hadley
Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair,… — Albert Hadley
We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly.… — Paul Provenza
We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race,… — John Astin
Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work. Let us lead them into the healthy world… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Primitive societies without religion have never been found. — William Dean Howells
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)â€”Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already… — Walt Whitman
We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is… — Ahad Ha'am
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it. — Don DeLillo
Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant. — Ingrid Newkirk
MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts… — Ambrose Bierce
A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has… — D. W Brogan
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for… — Charmian Clift
Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul [of Tarsus], Teresa of Avila,… — Robert Barron

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