Quote by Bertolt Brecht

“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the…

— Orson Scott Card

“I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure…

— Robert Heinlein

“As far back as I can remember, I’ve utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the periphery of…

— Emil M. Cioran

“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him has no need of any other…

— John Stuart Mill

“My nation, your nation, my religion, your religion, my culture, your culture, will be the end of us apes - outwardly fancy, inwardly filthy,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other…

— John Stuart Mill

“I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between Man and…

— Cari Linneaus

“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard”

— Alfred Döblin

“What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other’s minds.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“We evolved from apes and we’re going extinct.”

— Dan Brown

“Human beings are not the central focus of the world. We may dominate the world, but just like all other creatures we have to…

— Wendo L