Homo Quotes

109 quotes by 83 authors

It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species… — Desmond Morris
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all… — Cees Nooteboom
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the… — Juan Enriquez
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions… — Reynolds Price
We're all homos. Homo sapiens. — Michael Scott
Economics, as it is often taught today, portrays us as homo economicus-someone who doesn't vote in presidential elections, doesn't return lost wallets, and doesn't leave… — Robert H. Frank
Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to… — Carol Emshwiller
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have… — Jeff Schweitzer
I don't know who he (Wladimir) was trying to impress in that homo-erotic video of his doing bicep-curls. It didn't impress me. — David Haye
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with… — Gregory Colbert
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus â€” man is a wolf to manâ€”... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with… — Geoffrey Gorer
[...] elite social engineers appear to be aiming at a "hetero-homo" world, i.e. where individuals are bisexual, promiscuous and bereft of family. — Henry Makow
Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride. — Ambrose Bierce
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to… — Jules Henry
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that… — Jules Henry
What Homo sapien imagines, he may slowly convert himself to. — Saul Bellow
For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of… — William Ralph Inge
When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious… — Nikki Giovanni
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here… — Richard Leakey
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans,… — Richard Leakey

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