Apes Quote by Orson Scott Card

“Civilization is only a pretense; in the crisis, we become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and becoming instead the…

— Orson Scott Card

I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

— Konrad Lorenz

Language turned apes like us into civil creatures.

— Greg Gutfeld

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.

— Mark Rowlands

We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath…

— H. P. Lovecraft

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the…

— Charles Darwin

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up…

— Dale Jamieson

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But…

— Victor Hugo

“My nation, your nation, my religion, your religion, my culture, your culture, will be the end of us apes - outwardly fancy, inwardly filthy,…

— Abhijit Naskar

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Frans de Waal

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

— Simon Critchley