Primitive Quotes:

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.

- Albert J. Nock

topic: States, Testimony, Primitive

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

- Ayn Rand

topic: Racism, Form, Primitive, Collectivism, Lineage

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

- Don DeLillo

source: Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Technology, Scope, Primitive

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Ed Koch

topic: Advice, Action, Primitive

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

- Grandma Moses

source: "Grandma Moses, American Primitive: Forty Paintings". Book edited by Otto Kallir, 1947.

topic: Artist, Artistic, Primitive

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

- Helen Vendler

topic: Names, Giving, Primitive

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

- Henry Morton Stanley

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

topic: Return, Socialism, Primitive

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

- Louis Leakey

topic: Dog, Characteristics, Primitive, Dalmatians

the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.

- Margaret Millar

topic: Emotion, Birth, Primitive

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

topic: Silly, Territory, Primitive, Silly Things

Labels are for the things men make, not for men. The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled.

- Rex Stout

topic: Men, Labels, Primitive, Primitive Man

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

- Robert Quine

topic: Punk, Standards, Primitive, Virtuoso

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

- Robert Wyatt

topic: Singers, Primitive, Folks, Infantile

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

topic: Individuality, Might, Primitive

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

- Susan Mitchell

topic: Sex, Eye, Primitive

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.

- Tanith Lee

topic: Executioners, Primitive, Rite

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

- Todd Duncan

source: Todd Duncan (2002). “High Trust Selling: Make More Money in Less Time with Less Stress”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Authenticity, Form, Primitive

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

- William Dean Howells

topic: Found, Primitive

The slideshow "is a very primitive form that quickly becomes predictable and repetitive."

- Fred Ritchin

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Form, Primitive, Repetitive

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

- Rose Macaulay

source: Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”

topic: Lust, Impulse, Primitive

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

- Rowan Pelling

topic: Years, Taught, Primitive

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

- Charles Baudelaire

source: "Journaux intimes". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1887.

topic: Passion, Worship, Primitive

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

- Paul Cezanne

topic: Method, Primitive

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Writing, Primitive, Pens

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Legends, Honorable, Primitive

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

- Tanith Lee

source: "Sabella".

topic: Executioners, Primitive, Rite

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

- Dana Gould

topic: Dawn, Horrible, Primitive

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Dancer, Primitive, Storyteller

It is a primitive form of thought that things exist or do not exist.

- Arthur Eddington

topic: Form, Primitive

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

- H. P. Lovecraft

source: H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.106, e-artnow

topic: Shortcuts, Primitive, Thinker

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

- Dmitri Shostakovich

topic: Evil, Music Is, Primitive

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

- Don DeLillo

source: Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.181, Pan Macmillan

topic: White Noise, Primitive, Greater

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.87, Trajectory Inc

topic: Swamps, Wilderness, Primitive

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

- Bill Maher

topic: Superstitions, Tribes, Primitive, Misinformation