Primitive

Famous quotes containing the word primitive:

“This is a very primitive country.”
—James Poe (1921–1980)

“Good music is very close to primitive language.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

“Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)