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As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
It’s millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
Professional football is no longer a game. It's a war. And it brings out the same primitive instincts that go back thousands of years.
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.
Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.
Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.
... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.
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.
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.
...the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
We don't live in a primitive society any more. Many of us are lucky enough to be educated. We also realize that gender and sexuality is a spectrum.
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.
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.
The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.
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?
Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.
It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
Boxing is one of those leftovers from a more primitive past that should be finished off and killed. I don't love it anymore.
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.
The primitive Christians perpetually trod on mystic ground, and their minds were exercised by the habits of believing the most extraordinary events
Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.
The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'.
Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
A state, a community, caring first for all its children, providing amply for their spiritual as for their temporal well-being, has organized the primitive Eden.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.
But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.
Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.
The human longing for story is so powerful, so primitive, that it seems like something not learned, but locked into our genes.
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.
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.
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.
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.
shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.
The world is still being battered by the Western/white/Christian supremacy dogmas and practices, by the most primitive and fundamentalist 'principles'.
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.
The most striking quality common to all primitive art is its intense vitality. It is something made by a people with a direct and immediate response to life.
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded.
If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.
In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.
