It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
“A civilization is built upon the edifice of genuine human minds, not the primitive and deluded minds of barbarian apes, who in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
What is man that his welfare be considered? An ape who chatters of kinship with the archangels while he very filthily digs… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
In a weird way, if you look at all the 'Apes' movies, they all seem like different stories in the same universe.… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
The pace at which science has progressed has been too fast for human behaviour to adapt to it. As I said we… — Jean-Marie Lehn Copy Share Image
There is no reason to teach an ape to become human. There are many reasons to teach some apes and some humans… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds...… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
“As animals have no idea of the holy or the devil, they have no idea of the beautiful. The opinion held by… — Alija Izetbegović 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'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants… — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“...but there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Certainly we’ve made important innovations, chief among them the systematic use of the scientific method,” he said at one point, “but the… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs.… — Maureen O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down --… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics… — J. Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the "buffone", or clown, and was therefore the ape of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
“It's us, you know, it's us who can't handle that kind of love. We're apes. Literally. We don't know shit about unconditional… — Madeline Ashby Copy Share Image
“He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As far as I can recall, the initial shiver of inspiration [for Lolita] was somehow prompted by a newspaper story about an… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of… — James Lee Copy Share Image
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image