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“So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.”

Men Humans Law Night Human Beings Animal Break Dangerous Instinct Destructive Lions Primitive Bulls Herds Nuisance Fetch Primitive Man Law Breakers

Author:Carl Jung

“Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like wounded animals to die in bloodstained holes.”

Humans America Dies Imagination Human Beings Animal Cities Worst Holes Capitalist Primitive Wounded Jungle Slums Inner City Wounded Animal

Book:Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

Source: Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West

“Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But in all these varied and exciting extensions of our experience we always come back tot the fact that we are human beings of such and such a size, biologically the same as primitive man, and that it is through drawing and observing, or observing and drawing, that we equate our bodies with our landscape.”

“The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.”

Humans Art Ideas Self Sometimes Human Beings Results Creativity Personality Discipline Mess Impulse Attractive Glorious Nonsense Dedication Primitive Self Discipline Notable Unruly

Author:Margaret Halsey

“A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.”

Source: The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism