Primitive famous 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

#States #Testimony #Primitive

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

#Racism #Form #Primitive

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

#Technology #Scope #Primitive

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
-- Ed Koch

#Advice #Action #Primitive

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
-- Grandma Moses

#Artist #Artistic #Primitive

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

#Names #Giving #Primitive

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.
-- Henry Morton Stanley

#Return #Socialism #Primitive

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
-- Louis Leakey

#Dog #Characteristics #Primitive

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

#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

#Silly #Territory #Primitive

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

#Men #Labels #Primitive

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

#Punk #Standards #Primitive

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

#Singers #Primitive #Folks

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

#Individuality #Might #Primitive

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

#Sex #Eye #Primitive

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.
-- Tanith Lee

#Executioners #Primitive #Rite

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

#Authenticity #Form #Primitive

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
-- William Dean Howells

#Found #Primitive

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

#Form #Primitive #Repetitive

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

#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

#Years #Taught #Primitive