Apes Quote by Paul Watson

We are not superior. There are no clear distinctions between us and animals.

— Michael Fox

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

— Wendell Berry

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms…

— Lynn Margulis

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

— Konrad Lorenz

I think we give human beings too much credit. We're primates, you know.

— Eric Andre

“In demonstrating that humans behave with justice, tolerance, reason, love toward other forms of life, we are doing no more than demanding that humans…

— Edward Abbey

Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse

— Frans De Waal

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

— Peter Singer

Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the…

— Carl Sagan

“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

— Frans de Waal

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

— Jose Ortega y Gasset