Primitive Quotes

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...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst them we have indisputable proof.

Sometimes you may kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands with very primitive armaments.

True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.

The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

Only in time of fear is government thrown back to its primitive and sole function of self-defense and the many interests of which it is the guardian become subordinate to that.

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws.

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 of the baroque.

They are Nietzsche's over-men, these primitive Albanians - something between kings and tigers.

Happy he who far from business, like the primitive are of mortals, cultivates with his own oxen the fields of his fathers, free from all anxieties of gain.

The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

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 recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

Number is therefore the most primitive instrument of bringing an unconscious awareness of order into consciousness.

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, superstition and misinformation.

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples, and they are right.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.

It is the mark of a primitive society to view regression as progress.

Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

The Internet has usurped the collective unconscious and access to cosmic consciousness has become difficult and almost primitive.

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.