I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes. — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males. — Claudine Andre Copy Share Image
Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. — Malcolm Rifkind Copy Share Image
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A mind is a terrible thing. All this evolution nonsense is making me feel like a complete APE! — Berkeley Breathed Copy Share Image
If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas. — William Tenn Copy Share Image
“My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
I hadn't done a comedy for a while. I had directed a very low budget movie called The Ape and it was… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“The reaction on the part of the apes, limited as it was to about one subject in every three or four, has… — Susanne K. Langer Copy Share Image
Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Now, as light stayed longer every day, the bears and hyaenas and bony hippos, the lonely alopex and the apes, lay still-tensely,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What would you do, sir, if terrorists were killing 45,000 people every year in this country? Well, the current health care system,… — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that the difference between the mind of the lowest man and that of the highest animal is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The normal citizen looked at us and saw a mixture of gangster, hippy, criminal and ape. Once somebody rang us up with… — Chris Karrer Copy Share Image
Even if this is the end of humankind, we dare not take away the chances some other life-form might have to succeed… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
“Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image