Primitive Quotes - Page 9

• Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

  Henry Morton Stanley

  Return, Socialism, Conditions

  Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley (2011). “The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B”, p.531, Cambridge University Press

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• That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

  Neil Kinnock

  Liberty, Economic, Assets

  Speech to National Housing and Town Planning Conference in Bournemouth, October 28, 1986.

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• Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.

  Tom Robbins

  Hands, Zippers, Revolution

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.299, Bantam

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• And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible.

  Jack Spicer

  Mean, Thinking, Tree

  Jack Spicer (2010). “The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

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• I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

  Nigella Lawson

  Thinking, People, Soul

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Ignorant, Savages, Improvement

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• In every science, after having analysed the ideas, expressing the more complicated by means of the more simple, one finds a certain number that cannot be reduced among them, and that one can define no further. These are the primitive ideas of the science; it is necessary to acquire them through experience, or through induction; it is impossible to explain them by deduction.

  Giuseppe Peano

  Mean, Simple, Ideas

  "The Mathematical Philosophy of Giuseppe Peano". Philosophy of Science Vol. 30, No. 3, July 1963.

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• 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.

  Jay Severin

  Country, School, America

  "Jay Severin’s Insanely Racist Rant" by Cenk Uygur, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2009.

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• A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Artist, Expression, Style

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• We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.

  Murray Bookchin

  Spring, Ocean, Journey

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• I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress.

  Murray Bookchin

  Motivation, People, Progress

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• 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.

  Russell Baker

  Airports, Railroads, Towns

  "Inside the Suit, a Man!". The New York Times Opinion Page, www.nytimes.com. November 05, 1986.

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• You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.

  Asger Jorn

  Mean, Fighting, Animal

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.

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• Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity. No primitive tribe worshipping with its witch-doctor was ever more vicious in its hatred and suppression of heretics than today's Marxist intellectuals, anti-racists and liberals.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Hate, Pride, Doctors

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• Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing moral maturity right at the most primitive, most childish, stage: the fear of retribution-and fundamentalism threatens one hell of a spanking.

  Robert M. Price

  Real, Maturity, Doe

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• There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of the those who do not have insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Past, Appreciate

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1994). “A Short History of Financial Euphoria”, p.17, Penguin

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• Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

  Dion Fortune

  Mind, May, Divine

  Dion Fortune (2016). “The Machinery of the Mind”, p.60, Dion Fortune

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• Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.

  Leon Trotsky

  Religious, Ignorance, Government

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• The art and architecture of the past that we know is that which remains. The best is that which remains where it was painted, placed or built.  Most of the art of the past that could be moved was taken by conquerors. Almost all recent art is conquered as soon as it's made, since it's first shown for sale and once sold is exhibited as foreign in the alien museums. The public has no idea of art other than that it is something portable that can be bought. There is no constructive effort; there is no cooperative effort. This situation is primitive in relation to a few earlier and better times.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Taken, Past

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

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Primitive Man, Vices

  Konrad Lorenz (1966). “On aggressión”

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• 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?

  Katharine Hamnett

  Fashion, Men, Primitive Man

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• The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

  Louis Leakey

  Dog, Dalmatians, Characteristics

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• Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Country, Smart, Intelligent

  "Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech" by Maxim Tkachenko, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2009.

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• We are in love with the word. We are proud of it. The word precedes the formation of the state. The word comes to us from every avatar of early human existence. As writers, we are obliged more than others to keep our lives attached to the primitive power of the word. From India, out of the Vedas, we still hear: On the spoken word, all the gods depend, all beasts and men; in the world live all creatures...The word is the name of the divine world.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Names, Vedas

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• The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Character, Order, Gaps

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