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
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are… — Frans de Waal 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
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
As this VP discovered, being a boss is much like being a high-status primate in any group: the creatures beneath you in… — Bob Sutton Copy Share Image
None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of… — Dian Fossey 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
I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know. — Eric Andre 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
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
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
I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I’ve never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie) I don’t know. I think those two guys you… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
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
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. — Christopher Hitchens 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
We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our… — Murray Bookchin 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
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
In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
