Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 366 authors

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions. — Henry Morton Stanley
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is… — Neil Kinnock
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and… — Tom Robbins
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the… — Jack Spicer
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. — Nigella Lawson
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages. — Vine Deloria, Jr.
In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot… — Giuseppe Peano
It's millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and… — Jay Severin
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products… — Juan Goytisolo
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwardsâ€”to chaotic darkness and the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. â€¦ Our… — Murray Bookchin
I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations… — Murray Bookchin
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach… — Russell Baker
You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked… — Asger Jorn
Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being â€œbroadmindedâ€, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity.… — George Lincoln Rockwell
Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral… — Robert M. Price
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent… — John Kenneth Galbraith
Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind. — Dion Fortune
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky
The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed… — Donald Judd

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