quotes about Primitive
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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.
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.
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As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
-- Don DeLilloSource : Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
-- Ed Koch -
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A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
-- Grandma MosesSource : "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.
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I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.
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Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.
-- Henry Morton StanleySource : 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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The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
-- Louis Leakey -
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the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.
-- Margaret Millar -
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.
-- Ray Bradbury -
Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.
-- Rex Stout -
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
-- Robert Quine -
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I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
-- Robert Wyatt -
Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.
-- Susan Mitchell -
Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.
-- Tanith Lee -
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Trust, in its most primitive form, is based on authenticity, not flawlessness.
-- Todd DuncanSource : Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
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The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."
-- Fred RitchinSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.
-- Rose MacaulaySource : Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
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If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
-- Rowan Pelling