Quotes by category:Primitive

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

Albert Einstein

primitive legends honorable

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

testimony primitive states

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers. by Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

storyteller primitive dancer

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exi... by Arthur Eddington

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

Arthur Eddington

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

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

primitive form racism

Like it or not, we're still a primitive tribe ruled by fears, sup... by Bill Maher

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

primitive tribes superstitions

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest pas... by Charles Baudelaire

To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my earliest passion).

Charles Baudelaire

primitive passion worship

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen. by Chinua Achebe

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

primitive pens writing

Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.

primitive horrible dawn

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but... by Dmitri Shostakovich

Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!

Dmitri Shostakovich

primitive music-is evil

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more... by Don DeLillo

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

primitive scope technology

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear. by Don DeLillo

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

white-noise primitive greater

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. by Ed Koch

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

primitive action advice

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes pred... by Fred Ritchin

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

repetitive primitive form

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. by Grandma Moses

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

primitive artistic artist

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

H. P. Lovecraft

primitive shortcuts thinker

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and... by Helen Vendler

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

primitive names giving

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions. by Henry Morton Stanley

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

Henry Morton Stanley

primitive socialism return

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

Henry David Thoreau

swamps primitive wilderness

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

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

Margaret Millar

primitive birth emotion

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