Apes Quote by Dale Jamieson

The problem of the apes is not a shortage of money, it is a shortage of strategy. Let us devote our minds... the one…

— Richard Leakey

“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

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

— Simon Critchley

There can be no doubt that the difference between the mind of the lowest man and that of the highest animal is immense. An…

— Anonymous

“The First Human (Sonnet 2632) Apes have lords and ladies, I don't. Apes have kings and queens, I don't. My time is born of…

— Abhijit Naskar

...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

“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

The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source…

— Jeffrey Kluger

“Never blame the man: his hard-pressed Ancestors formed him: the other anthropoid apes were safe In the great southern rain-forest and hardly changed In…

— Robinson Jeffers

I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.

— Charlie Brooker