Primitive Quotes

423 quotes by 366 authors

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man — Konrad Lorenz
In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the… — Jacque Fresco
Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately. Â There is no field that you can study… — Jacque Fresco
The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics. — Louis Leakey
Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic… — Dmitry Medvedev
Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language… — Alexander Theroux
The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence… — George Gaylord Simpson
With our technologies--ones of incalcuable power: earth-restoring, planet preserving--we can rediscover an intimacy, a mutuality with the natural world, that is not primitive (though based… — Janet Kauffman
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the… — Albert Pierrepoint
Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate… — Charles Buck
Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were… — Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This… — Ahmed Ben Bella
This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally,… — Martin Chemnitz
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing. — Robert Bringhurst
My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, itâ€™s absurdity dressed up… — Jane Wagner
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of… — Johan Huizinga
The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory… — George Steiner
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight… — John Desmond Bernal
Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be… — John Desmond Bernal
Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic — Christina Stead

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