Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over it; to have a psychotic episode and get over it; or to have a love affair with an old Russian. And I stopped saying that when a little dancer in the front row put up her hand and said, 'Does he have to be old?
Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive.
Since the primitive times, the wealth of the popes was exposed to envy, their powers to opposition, and their persons to violence.
The very idea of the nude is only a neutralization of a primitive and violent act.
The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
The pens sharpen – Islamophobia! No such thing. Primitive Middle Eastern religions, and most others, are much the same – Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust for women's bodies.
True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity. . . She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.
Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But convictions, nonetheless.
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee Williams.
. . . the rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.
The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again.
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.