A relatively primitive village in which there are still real feasts, common artistic shared expressions, and no literacy at all is more advanced culturally and more healthy mentally than our educated, newspaper-reading radio-listening culture.
It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done.
Despite a primitive brain, the octopus possesses an intricate system that helps it decide which tentacle to masturbate with.
Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government.
How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with.
They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity. . . She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon world.
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.
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.
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true!
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.
Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.
All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul.
the emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.