It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and…

Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the…

— Orson Scott Card

I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really…

— Arne Glimcher

I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are…

— Paul McCartney

Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can…

— Alison Jolly

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking…

— Paul Watson

“As I sit, my back leaning against a damp, moss-covered tree trunk, my eyes sweeping the canopy above, my ears straining to catch the…

— Birute M.F. Galdikas

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

— Paul Ford

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an…

— Edward Gibbon

I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months…

— Christiaan Barnard

The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight…

— Richard Harris Barham

No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book…

— Christopher Hitchens

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to…

— Frans de Waal

The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to…

— Robert Anton Wilson