Quotes About Primitivism

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

Nová technika stvo?í nového, rovnoprávn?jšího ?lov?ka. Hovo?í pro to veškerý rozum. P?esto je znepokojivé, že se uprost?ed dob?e organizované moderní spole?nosti mohlo zrodit tolik primitivního zla.

The most recent phase of the alternation between Occidentalism and primitivism has therefore concealed the essential thing, the universality of violence. A selective blindness in one of two forms has obscured the fact that all cultures, and all individuals without exception, participate in violence; that violence is what structures our collective sense of belonging and our personal identities.

Una de las consecuencias de la primacía del hombre-masa en la vida de las naciones es, dice, el desinterés de la sociedad aquejada de primitivismo y de vulgaridad por los principios generales de la cultura, es decir, por las bases mismas de la civilización.

English attitudes saw Islam as a shallow kind of sophistication; Hinduism a profound form of primitivism.

Fascism is technologically equipped primitivism.

The point of this chapter's unflattering précis of nascent American medicine is not to castigate it for its primitivism, but to put blacks' historical aversion to medical care into context, for most antebellum blacks were subjected to southern medicine. The

I think my masks reference artists who reference primitivism. They're not directly connected to tribal arts. I think they look more like third-grade art projects.

So the first thing about the history of rhyme . . . is that it's all happened before. It's all part of these huge rhymeorhythmic circles of exuberance and innovation and surfeit and decay and resurrectional primitivism and waxing sophistication and infill and overgrowth and too much and we can't stand it and let's stop and do something else.

Egoism is the manipulation of human infantile selfishness, egoism leads humanity to the animal primitivism of instincts and vices in literally everything. Hypocrisy is what remains of a person, a pitiful acting parody of a person. The more a person is afraid, the more selfishness in him.