Top Primitive Quotes
In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Edward Koch
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
Lionel Trilling
St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church.
John Strachan
The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.
Louis Leakey
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.
Phillip Noyce
Hedda Hopper 
Adam Michnik 
Mark Rothko 
William Dean Howells 
John Strachan 
Konrad Lorenz 
Kurt Vonnegut 
Juan Goytisolo All Primitive Quotes
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
John Desmond Bernal 
50% of people like this quote
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!
Peter Asher
50% of people like this quote
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
Robert Quine
49% of people like this quote
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
49% of people like this quote
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
49% of people like this quote
The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
Havelock Ellis
49% of people like this quote
That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.
Mark Rothko
48% of people like this quote
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
Henry James Sumner Maine
48% of people like this quote
Popular Primitive Authors
Denis DiderotPaul CezanneStephen GardinerDon DeLilloNorman MailerRobert WyattHerbert ReadGeorge WaldDonna TarttJean BaudrillardNigella LawsonPaul HarrisMarc MaronStephen LeacockAhmed Ben Bella
Debbie HarryKurt VonnegutHavelock EllisJohn W. GardnerArthur KeithMichael BeheAnna FreudJohn AstinJohn StrachanLouis LeakeyAlbert J. NockPaul D. BoyerWilliam Dean HowellsEdward KochIsadora Duncan
More »