Quotes About Primitive

It seemed stupid to be pursued on foot like Homo sapiens sapiens of a hundred thousand years before.

When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive.

If you look at the primitive societies that we know about, the worst thing that could have happened to you was to be captured and be turned over to the women.

Comradeship always sets the cultural tone at the lowest possible level, accessible to everyone. It cannot tolerate discussion; in the chemical solution of comradeship, discussion immediately takes on the color of whining and grumbling. It becomes a mortal sin. Comradeship admits no thoughts, just mass feelings of the most primitive sort

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.

The truth was too primitive and too bloody.

the universe was not created for or about human beings, that we are not special, and there was no Golden Age of tranquillity and plenty in the distant past, but only a primitive battle for survival.

Plot is a primitive vulgarity in literature," said Balph Eubank contemptuously.

Thought is a primitive superstition. Reason is an irrational idea.

I don't see it. It's a backward, primitive, unenlightened place. They don't even have a modern government. It's the worst government in any state. The laziest. It does nothing—outside of keeping law courts and a police department. It doesn't do anything for the people. It doesn't help anybody. I don't see why all our best companies want to run there." The

Trophy heads served much the same social purpose for primitive warriors as medals, decorations, or marks of fallen enemy aircraft do for modern ones.

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It is hard to know which threatened the army more: the primitive material base or the paranoid class politics.

Containment is the simple idea that a class contains a primitive data element or object. A lot more is written about inheritance than about containment, but that's because inheritance is more tricky and error-prone, not because it's better. Containment is the work-horse technique in object-oriented programming.

Engañar es un acto económico primitivo: obtener más a cambio de menos.

Words are too recent an imprinting. Animals, though, are part of our ancient grammar, prehistorically embedded in the brain.

The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.

The "world" of the Sumerians was not objective reality, as we presently construe it. It was simultaneously more and less—more, in that this "primitive" world contained phenomena that we do not consider part of "reality," such as affect and meaning; less, in that the Sumerians could not describe (or conceive of) many of those things that processes of science have revealed to us. Myth is not primitive proto-science. It is a qualitatively different phenomenon.

Man is and remains an animal.Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

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What is primitive in me is my warmth; I have a sort of primitive love and primitive sympathy for people, for all people.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

The cavemen, when they saw the antelopes, they had to scratch them on to the caves because they needed to express the immediacy of what they were being affected by - and I love that. That is why I do what I do. I need to express myself.

The fuckin' cavemen had it right. They knew. An afternoon's work killing a dinosaur and live off it for a couple of weeks.