Desire Quote by Melchor Lim

Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom…

— Thomas French

Humans are born free then put into cages, then convinced freedom is what being in a cage is, and what freedom is, is being…

— Craig Stone

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made…

— Terence McKenna

We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

— Mahmoud Darwish

We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“A monkey's mind is curious. So we can treasure that; as we are curious too… Yet meanwhile by simply releasing all attachment or identification…

— Leland Lewis

We are ashamed at the sight of a monkey--somehow as we are shy of poor relations.

— Charles Lamb

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

— Simon Critchley

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other…

— Terence McKenna

Humans are just monkeys with feelings.

— Nikhil Saluja

“Humans, in short, desire something both unknown to them and inaccessible to the strategies of acquisition that desire sets in motion. We are creatures…

— Gil Bailie

Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of…

— Katherine Dunn