The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Why is it that it's okay to call a white person "mate" yet it's not okay to call a black guy "primate"? — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it. — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
Primates are hardwired for us/them dichotomies. Our brains detect them in less than 100 milliseconds. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
When one has extensively pondered about men, as a career or as a vocation, one sometimes feels nostalgic for primates. At least… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But… — Arne Glimcher 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
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions,… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend," and we see ourselves as some… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“I’d been traveling in Asia long enough to know that monkeys there are nothing like their trombone-playing, tambourine-banging cousins I’d seen on… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The belief that the animals exist because God created them - and that he created them so we can better meet our… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist.… — Alison Jolly Copy Share Image
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
Kids have *_____ never* taken guidance from their parents. If you could travel back in time and observe the original primate family… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates. — Paul Ford Copy Share Image
It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When it comes to love we are primates breaking sticks while pointing to our hearts.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.” — Henry Fairfield Osborn Copy Share Image
It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Primates are very territorial. It is in their nature to protect their food resources as well as their females and young. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“Primates who evolved in places seething with venomous snakes have better vision than primates who didn’t evolve in those places. But” — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
I think there's some evidence that we're empathic by nature. There is some evidence from studies of babies and young children that… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence… — Michael Bywater Copy Share Image
One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
![“I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no…” quote by Christiaan Barnard](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3b9/christiaan-barnard-39607_animal_i-had-bought-two-male-chimps-from-a-prim_126559.jpg)
