Primitive Quotes

Many students of dreams, from Plato to [Sigmund] Freud, hold that the sleeping person,deprived of contact with the outside world, regresses temporarily to an irrational primitive mental state.

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

Musically Bob [Dylan] is a primitive. He's not a Gershwin, or somebody that uses eloquent music terms.

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

The sarin gas is a very primitive gas. You can have it done in the backyard of a house ; it's a very primitive gas. So, it's not something complicated.

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

I'm not a real gadgety person. In fact, some people think that I'm kind of primitive.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

This is still a very primitive age, and I'm afraid they may not get much further here.

Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.

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 a lot of life in America.

All right, you primitive screwheads. Listen up. I'm Harry Dresden. I'm the new Winter Knight.

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

Basque and Celt. Criminals and barbarians. I didn't think there could be a more primitive pairing of genes.

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.