Apes Quotes

234 quotes by 179 authors

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in… — Diane Ackerman
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. — Honore de Balzac
Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited… — Brandon Boyd
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks
I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered… — Helena Bonham Carter
What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such… — William Shakespeare
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Conformity is the ape of harmony. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character... by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I… — Carl Linnaeus
I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul. — Henry David Thoreau
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human. — Jared Diamond
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing… — David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels. — Robert Ardrey
Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they… — William H. Calvin
Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right… — William Ralph Inge
...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 social… — Peter Singer
I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the… — David James
"Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man,… — Stuart Briscoe
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it the consecration of… — Adolf Hitler

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