Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 366 authors

One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid… — Richard Evans Schultes
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. — Eugene McCarthy
The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive… — Tori Amos
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence… — Chaim Weizmann
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been… — Baron d'Holbach
The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic,… — Jean Baudrillard
Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual,… — Donna Karan
But the appeal to antiquity is both a treason and a heresy. It is a treason because it rejects the Divine voice of the Church… — Henry Edward Manning
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns â€¦it… — Ralph Linton
Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about...Â I consider that life only starts at the level of a… — Werner Arber
I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very… — Paul Gauguin
Mohammed knew that most people are terribly cowardly and stupid. That is why he promised two beautiful women to every courageous warrior who dies in… — Heinrich Himmler
He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were… — Albert Speer
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real… — Paul D. Boyer
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It… — Hamlin Garland
In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had… — Richard Matheson
Religion is a primitive form of philosophy, [the] attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality. — Ayn Rand
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet… — Marshall McLuhan
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can… — William O. Douglas

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