Primitive Ideals

Famous quotes containing the words primitive and/or ideals:

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

“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)