Primitive Quotes - Page 28

• I keep feeling that people are becoming less human and more animalistic. They seem to think less and feel less so that everyone is operating on a very primitive level. I wonder what you and I will see in our lifetimes. It seems so hopeless yet we must keep on trying ... I guess we can't escape being a product of the times, can we?

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Feb 15, 2013

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• Limited means often constitute the charm and force of primitive painting. Extension, on the contrary, leads the arts to decadence.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Mean, Morality

  Karen Wilkin, Georges Braque (1991). “Georges Braque”

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• In terms of their basic biochemical design....no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor is there the slightest empirical hint of an evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth.

  Michael Denton

  Cells, Design, Hints

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• Conviction is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment, or by hating them, as convinced men have hated, say, Darwin and Freud, as agents of some devil.

  John Ciardi

  Hate, Men, Devil

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• In a society where every man works for himself, individual incentive, working for one's self. If people worked for one's self, there wouldn't be the electric light, there wouldn't be engines and powered vehicles, there wouldn't be electrification and reservoirs and water purification.  These are processes that help all people. And processes that help single people is a very primitive value system carried into this century, which is really not necessary.

  Jacque Fresco

  Men, Light, Self

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• I feel if theres one little thing I could do, its to make people realize: We are not worthless because we inhabit a country which is seen by Western eyes as a primitive, fundamentalist country only. . .I mean, we are a rich mixture of all sorts of forces as well, and our lives are very much worth living.

  Bapsi Sidhwa

  Inspirational, Life, Country

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• Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals, that's all. I am not creating a game. I am in the game. The game is not for children, it is for me. It is for an adult who still has a character of a child.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Children, Character, Thinking

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• Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

  Roger Ebert

  Children, School, Ideas

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• The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

  Frank Barron

  Photography, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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• The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.

  Dan Brown

  Stress, Reality, Ego

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.377, Knopf

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• The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.

  Desmond Morris

  Powerful, Animal, Ideas

  "Rose-Tinted Menagerie" by William Johnson, (p. 10), 1990.

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• As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

  Don DeLillo

  Technology, Scope, Complexity

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Religious, Men, Vision

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• Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.

  Albert Hadley

  Self, Discipline, Design

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• Anthropology studies different cultures; mainly primitive, but it doesn't think its own culture is primitive, unfortunately.  There is no field that you can study today that isn't trapped in the culture in some way.  It's hard to escape your culture.

  Jacque Fresco

  Thinking, Different, Culture

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• under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Grief, Men, Anxiety

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• Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Eating Meat, Arrogant, Animal Rights

  "Washington City Paper" Newspaper, December 20, 1985.

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• We look at the ancient Greeks with their gods on a mountain top throwing lightning bolts and say, 'Those ancient Greeks. They were so silly. So primitive and naive. Not like our religions. We have burning bushes talking to people and guys walking on water. We're ...sophisticated.'

  Paul Provenza

  Silly, Talking, People

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• Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Racism, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.148, Penguin

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