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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
christopher hitchens— Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great. 2007. LCC BL2775.3.H58 2007. ISBN 9780446579803. OCLC 70630426.
… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…
Hans Blix— The Guardian, ibid.
They looked at me like I was some kind of threat. [Mick] Jagger really tried to put me down, but there was no way some crude, lippy guy was going to do a number on me. I was always able to squelch him. I found out that, if you stand up to Mick, he crumbles.
anita pallenberg— On becoming acquainted with the Rolling Stones. As quoted in Up and Down With The Rolling Stones, by Tony Sanchez.
Let me say it here and now. For all Hunter's mindless self-indulgence, which is legendary and crude, he always impressed me with his blind, selfless urge to cut out the crony bestiality of modern society and the political economy that scarred the era.
ralph steadman— Fear And Loathing, p. 67
You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself.
max beerbohm— 1911Zuleika Dobson, ch.7.
Yet once more,O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
john milton— 1637 Lycidas, opening lines.
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
georg büchner— Act I (Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835))
In his actions was a crude trampling of the law and of proper administrative rules, politicization of the public service, and the use of public resources to advance personal and political interests.
tzachi hanegbi— Israeli State Comptroller and judge Eliezer Goldberg on Tzachi Hanegbi in his annual report, published September 24, 2004.
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
robert e. howard— From a letter to Robert W. Gordon (February 15, 1926)
There is a clear acknowledgement all over the world that we should not teach people to read and then to leave them without literature. For they would then relapse into a dreary and ultimately dangerous state of half-education, in which they would be easily satisfied by crude semi-pictorial approximations of the strip cartoon and by the abundant supply of degenerate literature which destroys, rather than promotes, a capacity to face the problems of the world with skill and courage
a.d. patel— His argument for the introduction of a colony-wide library system in 1955.
Few writers who have managed to acquire his reputation can have been so much at the mercy of crude emotion.
Alan Sillitoe— Martin Seymour-Smith Guide to Modern World Literature (London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1973] 1975) vol. 1, p. 337
"[the impression of the first time I heard Webern's music in a concert performance] was the same as I was to experience a few years later when I first laid eyes on a Mondriaan canvas...: those things, of which I had acquired an extremely intimate knowledge, came across as crude and unfinished when seen in reality"
anton webern— Karel Goeyvaerts, quoted in: 1994. "Paris: Darmstadt 1947-1956: Excerpt from the Autobiographical Portrait", translated by Patrick Daly, Peter Vosch, and Roger Janssens. p.39
Despite the bare butts and crude sex jokes -- or because of them -- this Adam Sandler vehicle addresses some of the biggest political problems of our time. ... At the very least, it's got to be the first picture to use smelly-feet jokes as a means of parsing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But more than that, it's a mainstream movie that dares to make jokes about the kinds of complex political realities that most of us don't dare bring up at dinner parties.
stephanie zacharek— Review of You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish.
wystan hugh auden— Lines 56-58 (September 1, 1939 (1939))
The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
frederick franck— p. 21 (Echoes from the Bottomless Well (1985))
Take Mitchel here -- no -- on second thoughts -- don't -- because he's a crude little bugger.
Peter Greenaway— Albert
The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question of the psychological relationship between the sexes. In comparison with this the other pales into insignificance, and with it we enter the real domain of woman. Woman's psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos.
carl jung— "Woman in Europe" (1927). In CW 10: Civilization in Transition. P.254
On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.
vladimir mayakovsky— "1" (1913); translation from Patricia Blake (ed.) The Bedbug and Selected Poetry (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975) p. 53
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
john milton— Line 1. (Lycidas (1637))
On one side is the gigantic printing press, a miracle of fine articulation, which turns out the tabloid newspaper: on the other side are the contents of the tabloid itself, symbolically recording the most crude and elementary states of emotion.
Lewis Mumford— Ch. 6, sct. 9
On the top of the wall lay a structure of burnt brick, about a foot and a half in height, under the tiles and projecting like a coping . ...when the tiles on the roof are broken or thrown down by the wind so that rain-water can leak through, this burnt brick coating will prevent the crude brick from being damaged, and the cornice -like projection will throw off the drops beyond the vertical face, and thus the walls, though of crude brick structure, will be preserved intact.
vitruvius— Chapter VIII, Sec. 18
For crude classifications and false generalisations are the curse of all organised human life.
— Ch. 10, sect. 1
Soon their crude notions with each other fought; The adverse sect denied what this had taught; And he at length the amplest triumph gain'd, Who contradicted what the last maintain'd.
Matthew Prior— Matthew Prior, Solomon, Book I, line 717.
While modern social conditions are removing the crude physical checks which the unrestrained struggle for existence places on the over-fertility of the unfit, they may at the same time be leading to a lessened relative fertility in those physically and mentally fitter stocks, from which the bulk of our leaders have hitherto been drawn.
— Karl Pearson, 1901. National Life from the Standpoint of Science. London, Methuen.
Luminous beings are we... not this crude matter.
Yoda— Voiced by Frank Oz in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and made the fruitful suggestion of "a perfecting principle" in Nature. With the coming in of Christian theology this tendency toward a yet truer theory of evolution was mainly stopped, but the old crude view remained...
Andrew Dickson White— Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Ch. 1 (1896)
The main objective is to learn to think crudely. crude thinking is the great one’s thinking.
bertolt brecht— Dreigroschenroman (1934), reprinted in Gesammelte Werke, vol. 13 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967), 916.
crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
George Bernard Shaw— George Bernard Shaw in: Bridges to Better Writing, Cengage Learning, 15 January 2009, p.237
