A Quote by Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

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Collectivism Form Lowest Most Primitive Racism

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Ayn Rand
Russian - Writer
February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982

Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

Ayn Rand

Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

Ron Paul

I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

John Oliver

Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.

Norm MacDonald

In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to a complex wheel-work, such as a watch which ceases to exist if it is stamped down in a mortar. No, in its primitive form life is like fire, like a flame borne by the living substance;-like a flame which appears in endless diversity and yet has specificity within it;-which can adopt the form of the organic world, of the lank grass-leaf and of the stem of the tree.

Martinus Beijerinck

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

Blake Mycoskie

The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

Riz Ahmed

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

Todd Duncan

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Stephen Leacock

Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.

Ken Loach

[Rock 'n' roll] is still a primitive form and there's no way you can get away from that. It's one of the primitive art forms and that's why it's good and that's why it's lasted...you know, it hasn't become sophisticated and it's not in the opera house.

Van Morrison

It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The fact before us is that all ideas of gods can be traced to the earliest stages of human history.... There is an unbroken line of descent linking the gods of the most primitive peoples to those of modern man. We reject the world of the savage; but we still, in our churches, mosques, synagogues and temples, perpetuate the theories he built upon that world.