#primary

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#civilized #civilized society #disintegration #hostility #men

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance? ↗

— Colin Firth

#afterwards #big #case #instinct #me

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#american #american spirit #different #language #liberty

It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#detection #especially #even #good #inside

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#begun #black #establishment #free #goal

I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. ↗

— David Attenborough

#i #interest #just #just looking #looking

Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. ↗

— Dave Barry

#biological #breasts #function #make #males

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. ↗

— John Berger

#invention #light #makes #materials #photography

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#always #care #going #good #lacking

My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System. ↗

— James Cronin

#park #primary #provided #public #public school