The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.
Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race.
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Moroccan Police Officer: [to the boys as they walk through the primitive graveyard] Don't walk between the graves.
Transition and change - guaranteed to cause anxiety. That anxiety shows itself in physical and behavioral ways, but also with thoughts (sometimes really crazy ones). This is the (primitive/automatic) brain's way of keeping us safe from the danger of ...
There is a higher form of hierarchy and that is the hierarchy of the spirit. When I stand in front of a person, I stand in front of a soul and I have met magnificent souls in bodies possessing no money, as well as parched and shallow souls in bodies ...
...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...
I once visited a village of primitive people. At village, I felt time and life moved slower.
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.
was surely right in saying Fear made the gods. In primitive times fear of the unknown was normal; gratitude to an unknown was impossible.
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems were really primitive. But the girls made it all worthwhile!
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
Fate! This four-letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.
I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.
