Primitive Quotes

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

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

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

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.

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.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

To play with baubles is our ambition, not to deal with grave questions in a spirit of serious energy. But while we are playing with baubles, with our Legislative Councils, our Simultaneous Examinations, our ingenious schemes for separating the judicial from the executive functions, - while we, I say, are finessing about trifles, the waters of the great deep are being stirred and that surging chaos of the primitive man over which our civilised societies are superimposed on a thin crust of convention, is being strangely and ominously agitated.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

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

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

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

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

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

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