“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.” MenHumansLawNightHuman BeingsAnimalBreakDangerousInstinctDestructiveLionsPrimitiveBullsHerdsNuisanceFetchPrimitive ManLaw Breakers Author:Carl Jung
“Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.” MeanArtLawUsedHighestUnityFamiliarWorks Of ArtPrimitiveComprehension Book:The path to the new music Source: The path to the new music
“The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who violates one of the original laws which dominate the society and which are mostly derived from a divine founder; the boy who is accepted into the tribal community and learns its laws, which bind him thenceforth, learns to promise; this promise is often given under the sign of death, which is symbolically carried out on the boy, with a symbolical rebirth.” KnowsMenFormLawFoundGivenCommunityBoysDivineHe ManPromiseConceptsOriginalsGuiltAcceptedGuiltyMost PowerfulPrimitiveFoundersRebirth Author:Martin Buber
“When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any subject, or being interested in anything excepting a religion which took care of the soul. As man doubted the primitive conceptions about religion, and no longer accepted the literal, miraculous teachings of ancient books, he set himself to understand nature.” MenBookSoulCareLawOrderStudyAtheismTeachingSubjectsEventsMiracleAncientPositive AtheismAcceptedOccasionsConceptionPrimitiveMiraculousLiteralDoubted Author:Clarence Darrow
“Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.” MenWayIdeasLawResponsibilityCapacityFolksCustomsPrimitive Book:Crime: Its Cause and Treatment Source: Crime: Its Cause and Treatment