Alienation Quote by Frans de Waal Download Open image ““I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)”” — Frans de Waal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alienation Australia Felt Like Frog Decades Frogs Like Toilet Older Preceding Century Toilet Frog
“It reminds me of the story that my American godmother used to tell me years and years ago about two frogs who fell into… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“This quick foray onto the toilet has been no different an endeavor than any other time I’ve used the restroom in my adult life.… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
“What I feared was the onset of incontinence was simply a mid-laugh crisis.” — Venita Louise Copy Share Image
“To my surprise, the toilet began to play music. It was probably supposed to be comforting, some sort of melody to soothe you while… — Stuart Gibbs Copy Share Image
“...I felt instinctively that toilets - as also telephones - happened to be for reasons unfathomable, the points where my destiny was liable to… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to my legs like a drowning… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Everyone had taken their places, when I excused myself to visit the bathroom, and there, in the toilet, was the absolute biggest turd I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“once brought a frog home, hoping to keep him as a pet. Not a large frog, a one-handed frog, quiet and well mannered. My… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“holder. It was like some sort of miniature-recycled Stonehenge in the women’s bathroom, a monument to the bowel movements of days past. Actually, it… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“on August 16, 1996, when an eight-year-old female gorilla named Binti Jua helped a three-year-old boy who had fallen eighteen feet into the primate… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
“humans are a strange lot. We have the power to analyze and explore the world around us, yet panic as soon as the evidence… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Armies are a purely human invention. Most soldiers who go to war nowadays don't even do it because they're inherently aggressive. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Everyone who lived in high-up, magical places must feel the same way. You come down into the world and you mingle, but all the… — Arjum Hasan Copy Share Image
“If his long day were lived in a European novel, he'd become "D" when on the run or near disappeared.” — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self,… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“We are accustomed to think of ourselves as a great democratic body, linked by common ties of blood and language, united indissolubly by all… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A consequence of this alienation of humans from their own nature is that they are also alienated from each other. Productive activity becomes ‘activity… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not… — Judith Levine Copy Share Image
Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall'… — Nick Mason Copy Share Image