Motivation Quote by Thomas Suddendorf

“I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard”

— Alfred Döblin

“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

“Apes in their own habitat are less sexually driven than those in captivity. It must be that captivity, boredom, breeds lustfulness.”

— Saul Bellow

“Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.”

— Bauvard

“humans had to become the nicest of all apes before they could also evolve into the smartest.”

— Stefan Klein

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

— Simon Critchley

“One way to try to answer the question “What makes us human?” is to ask “What makes us different from great apes?” or, to…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous “make love not war” great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.”

— Anonymous

“Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an “ape legacy” that…

— Steven Pinker

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which…

— Diane Ackerman

“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