Campfire Quote by Wednesday Martin

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

— Jonathan Haidt

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

— Clay Shirky

I am just a monkey man, I'm glad you are a monkey woman, too.

— The Rolling Stones

“We humans have a dual nature—we are selfish primates who long to be a part of something larger and nobler than ourselves.”

— Jonathan Haidt

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

— Robert Sapolsky

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

— Corra May Harris

“it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability…

— Robert Sapolsky

I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist.

— Hugh Hefner

“It’s better to be a modest man instead of a conceited monkey.”

— M.F. Hopkins

Listen, I’m not entirely comfortable being human.

— Buddy Wakefield

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of…

— Malcolm Gladwell