Apes Quote by John Adams Download Open image “They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.” — John Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Apes Mastiffs Nuts Pay Political Politician Politics Worry
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries. — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
When you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey house. You see a couple of monkeys loose… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Primates are really well designed to see who is not keeping up their end of the deal. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
In conditions of uncertainty, humans, like other animals, herd together for protection. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity — John Adams Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Upon common theaters, indeed, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actors than their own aprobation. But upon the stage… — John Adams Copy Share Image
There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I will insist the Hebrews have [contributed] more to civilize men than any other nation. If I was an atheist and believed in blind… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning. — J. Lee Thompson Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Lower your gaze because you become less of a human every time you stare at a woman and you stare at her like she's… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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