Apes Quote by Jane Goodall

“The genes supply the motivation for warfare, [E. O.] Wilson is saying, in humans as they do in chimps, but people, blessed with the…

— Nicholas Wade

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

“Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of…

— David Livingstone Smith

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

As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any scruples about…

— Otto Hahn

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor,…

— Hannah Arendt

But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and…

— Jane Goodall

“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

Whether one believes in evolution, intelligent design, or Divine Creation, one thing is certain. Since the beginning of history, human beings have been at…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above…

— Elie Ducommun

We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

— Wendell Berry

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated...

— Albert Einstein