Become Quote by Adam Cohen

...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich…

— Peter Singer

If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability…

— Robert Sapolsky

Even granting that we [humans] face greater harm than laboratory animals presently endure if ... research on these animals is stopped, the animal rights…

— Tom Regan

I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.

— Dian Fossey

If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it.

— Mike Huckabee

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we…

— Jane Goodall

“One act of conscience that prevents you from a wrongdoing when nobody is watching, is far more civilized than a thousand laws that keep…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an “ape legacy” that…

— Steven Pinker

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human…

— Frans de Waal

We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.

— Alex Pacheco

“Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself,…

— Henry Fairfield Osborn

What do you actually mean when you say human rights? Animals don't have rights in that sense.

— Princess Michael of Kent