82 Primitive Quotes for You to Enjoy

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. Roger Ebert

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My dark secrets are life threatening. Pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build. I have this primitive feeling that if something good happens, it is going to be followed by something bad. There is always a price to pay. Sue Townsend

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia. Kurt Vonnegut

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn't about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind. Brian Eno

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Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. Colin Quinn

Time Great Crazy Humanity Fault Behavior Every Every Time Back Our Way Take Step Step Forward Primitive Accept Go Contradiction Same Just Us Meant Meant To Be Who Forward

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence? Albert Camus

Law Innocent Victim Society Innocence Other Claim Guilty Must Only Lay Absolutely Retaliation Individuals Between Primitive Supposed Operate Sure Question Represent Short Form Note Cut Even Whom Two

The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women. Oliver Tambo

The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance. Robert Bork

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me. Anna Freud

Myself Good Me People Affection Nothing Good Opinion More Contact Primitive Opinion Always Am Than Wanted Much Whom

We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth. Edwin Markham

Socialism People Earth Broke Tribes Ancient Find Restless Tendency Deluge Noble Over Primitive Globe Existed Wandering Form After Barbaric Planet Prehistoric Ground Groups Socialist Among Believing

The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed. H. P. Lovecraft

Great Man Culture Will Nation Honour High Point Primitive Beyond Imposed May Conventions Acknowledge Cannot Certain Certain Point Desire

The thing that is being lost is heritage. In Africa, religion and advertisement and television and media hype have gotten Africans to where they are convinced psychologically that their own heritage is heathen, pagan, barbaric, savage, primitive. Hugh Masekela

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. John W. Gardner

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The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. Stewart Udall

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Life World Simple Clever Consequences Enough Our Release We Cannot Comprehend New Primitive Forces Terrific Attuned Brain Cave New World Middle Cannot Which Stand Disposal Whose Here

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted. Ameen Rihani

Time People Exhausted Nation Sense Heritage Those Above Only Small He True Ideal Idealist Primitive Message However His Articulate Same Them Races Even Below

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world. Bruce Springsteen

Music Great World Band Jazz Back Our Everything Way City Pretty Net Casts Had Primitive Also Rock Go Trumpet Influences Kansas Kansas City Garage Street Wide Players Early

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 to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers. Charles Buck

Day Sunday Appropriate Seventh Constantly Ecclesiastical Both Sabbath Sacred Writers Never Name Primitive Although Lord Times Saturday Differently

Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background. Charles Lindbergh

Life Background Wildness Ancestral We Cannot Ourselves Must Civilization Never Never Forget Primitive Forget Human Cannot Centuries Created Separate Should Human Life Nourished Based Millions

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. David Gerrold

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