Quotes from Sir James George Frazer

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

When all is said and done our resemblances to the savage are still far more numerous than our differences from him.

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.