Primitivize Quotes

#1. When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Eric Hoffer

#2. We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#3. Maybe it is not a coincidence that, even in heaven, under the perspective of the Bible, there is a hierarchy. After all, what better way to impose the "benefits" of accepting the power of a hierarchy in the human mind?

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#4. Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison
Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.

Philip Larkin

#5. Do you ever think that there used to be more sensible explanations about things than there are now?

Alice Munro

#6. History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

Desmond Tutu

#7. For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.

William Penn

#8. Just get up. What's your name, kid?"
"G-man"
"I don't mean your codename down at the Dickhead Club. What does it say on your driver's license?

Tad Williams

#9. Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it's gone for good.

Eleanor Brownn

#10. God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#11. I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.

Betty Friedan

#12. Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

Voltaire

#13. I decided that I needed to take a new direction in my life, because any change was better than staying in the pit of depression. I actually visualised it as a pit.

Graeme Simsion

#14. Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

Catherine Deneuve

#15. Live everyday as if it's your last, boys, and one day in the future when you look back, you'll have lived ten thousand lifetimes.

Steven Moore

#16. Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

Neil Gaiman