Ifs Quote by Frans de Waal

It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with…

— 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

The best relationship you can have with a chimpanzee is total mutual trust.

— Jane Goodall

A peaceful relationship results from mutual understanding

— Anne Nwakama

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

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only…

— Frans de Waal

“And with our work,” John continued, “we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story”—i.e., the latest…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Faithfulness the best relationship.But unfortunately, it is to understand animals better than humans

— Mak_786

“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

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so…

— Christopher Hitchens

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which…

— Diane Ackerman