Apes Quotes

234 quotes by 179 authors

It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much… — Richard Dawkins
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night. — Tracy Morgan
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes… — Jean-Luc Godard
On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one… — Helena Bonham Carter
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension… — Carl Sagan
You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better… — David Fincher
The devil is God's ape! — Martin Luther
Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The… — Edward Abbey
We're just a conceited naked ape, but in our minds we're some 'divine legend' and we see ourselves as some sort of god, thinking we… — Paul Watson
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of… — Paul Watson
The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes. — Gary Larson
English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified… — Cyril Connolly
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is… — Desmond Morris
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of… — Dian Fossey
I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not… — Vaslav Nijinsky
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which oneâ€™s god module is overactive at the time. — Charles Stross
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud… — Eban Goodstein
If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed… — Thomas Huxley
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. — Thomas More

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