#primitive

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#any #collapse #difficulty #even #great

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#hip #jungle #primitive #sophistication #wise

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures. ↗

— Stewart Udall

#american #brother #common #creatures #earth

People didn't vote left or right in the election. They voted for putting an end to all the primitive political history. ↗

— Fatos Nano

#end #history #left #people #political

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#confiscation #conquest #had #history #invariably

We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#changed #closely #conditions #even #exist

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. ↗

— Robert Quine

#many #playing #primitive #punk #standards

Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#back #behavior #contradiction #crazy #every

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had. ↗

— Terry Riley

#dancers #equipment #fact #funky #good

Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#begins #city #comes #end #found