Aggressive Quote by Jane Goodall

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of…

— Jane Goodall

The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

— Jane Goodall

“Hare and Tomasello think that the social behavior of chimps is constrained by their temperament, and the human temperament is necessary for more complex…

— Michael S. Gazzaniga

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

— Frans de Waal

Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take…

— Frans de Waal

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

— Arthur Koestler

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to…

— Jane Goodall

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

— 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

“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

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

— Frans de Waal

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people…

— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh