Quotes and Sayings About Apes
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Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized.
-- Mark Rowlands -
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
-- Mark Twain -
It wasn't a monkey on my back, it was Planet of the Apes.
-- Mick McCarthy -
The first ape who became a man thus committed treason against his own kind.
-- Mikhail Turovsky -
Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.
-- Osbert Sitwell -
I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.
-- Paul Broca -
I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.
-- Paul Watson -
Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
-- Paul Watson -
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
-- Peter Kreeft -
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
-- Publilius Syrus -
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.
-- Richard Dawkins -
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes--the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.
-- Richard Dawkins -
We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
-- Richard Leakey -
We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.
-- Rick Bayan -
We are born of risen apes, not fallen angels.
-- Robert Ardrey -
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
-- Robert Ardrey -
Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.
-- Robert E. Howard -
People still don't get how astounding Darwinism is. People think what shocked everybody was that Charles Darwin seemed to be saying we had descended from apes.
-- Stephen Fry -
You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others
-- Steven Erikson -
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
-- Sugata Mitra -
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
-- Terence McKenna -
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
-- Terry Pratchett -
I'm a big, big movie fan. I watch 'The Ten Commandments' and the original 'Planet of the Apes' every night.
-- Tracy Morgan -
Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.
-- Will Cuppy -
Not a superman who stumbles, but an ape with makeshift manners in whose nickel-plated jungles roam mechanical bananas.
-- William Tenn -
Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.
-- Claudine Andre -
Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.
-- Maureen O'Sullivan
