Archaic Quotes

In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic.

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call him badly dressed, old, archaic and say he knew nothing about the economy... until the day he was elected. It's called universal suffrage. When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

They're protecting an archaic industry. They should turn their attention to new models.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.