My degrees are in anthropology, and I have friends who have worked with apes. — Gregory Keyes Copy Share Image
You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I hadn't really done a comedy other than The Ape since Freaks and Geeks. — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind. — Mikhail Turovsky Copy Share Image
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Why is it easier for some people to believe their ancestors were a clump of mud and a cannibalized body part, than… — Rock Cowles Copy Share Image
Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the… — Thomas More Copy Share Image
To say we evovled from apes is an argumentative phase/I don't have time for theories or a broad thought plan/Science can't document… — C-DASH Copy Share Image
If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going… — Scott Weiland Copy Share Image
“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Our close cousins the gorillas and orangs and chimps and gibbon apes have gotten along just fine all this time while eating… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Do I think men are complicated? People are complicated! I don't know that there is one particular aspect of men in general… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
Often sit alone happy happy Thoughts somewhat far gone gone Clouds circle mountain soft soft Wind through valley swish swish Ape in… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them?… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“There’s a quote I love from the anthropologist Robert Ardrey: “We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he… — Andy Serkis Copy Share Image
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
When you're thinking about something that you don't understand, you have a terrible, uncomfortable feeling called confusion... Now, is the confusion's because… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego. — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.” — Bauvard 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
Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.' — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed. — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image