Desire Quote by Robert Hughes

“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to…

— Frank Herbert

“There is a violent contrast here, in this country, between the growing abstractness of a unclear universe and a primary, visceral, unbounded vitality, in…

— Anonymous

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

— Vita Sackville-West

“...seizing and incorporating...There is nothing about us which is more strongly primitive. [p. 203]”

— Elias Canetti

“Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of…

— Jim Morrison

That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material…

— Frederick Jackson Turner

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

— Tecumseh

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that…

— Thomas Sowell

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind…

— Mercy Otis Warren

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

— Bertrand Russell

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that…

— Mirabeau B. Lamar

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to…

— John Desmond Bernal