Apes Quote by Frans de Waal

Chimps cannot tell us anything about peaceful relations, because chimps have only different degrees of hostility between communities. Whereas bonobos do tell us something;…

— Frans de Waal

“Some may have been as hierarchical, tense and violent as the nastiest chimpanzee group, while others were as laid-back, peaceful and lascivious as a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.

— Claudine Andre

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our…

— Jane Goodall

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

— Frans de Waal

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

— Frans de Waal

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

— Robert Sapolsky

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace…

— Steven Pinker

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just…

— Jane Goodall

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty…

— Dale Jamieson

“Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and…

— Francine Prose

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees…

— Tom Robbins