Grief doesn’t necessarily make
Grief doesn’t necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear. Gail Caldwell
Primitive
Although some men who
Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was … Read more
The primitive sign of
The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get. G. E. M. Anscombe
He wasn’t a complete
He wasn’t a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit … Read more
The Senate is the
The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative. Eugene McCarthy
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is
Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one’s own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent. Eugen Kogon
All the high-tone, big-time
All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, ‘Isn’t it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music? Eubie Blake
The people wanted to
The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn’t learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I’d get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we’d learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no … Read more
Our society and our
Our society and our organizations have learned to value masculine, ‘quick-fix’ traits in leaders. In a primitive society, a rural society, or even the industrial society of the early 1990s, quick fixes worked out all right. But they are less likely to work in a complex society. We need to look at long-range outcomes now. … Read more
the recurrent drama of
the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore. Estelle Ramey