Apes Quotes - Page 8

• As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man.

  Thomas Huxley

  Animal, Men, Brain

  Thomas H. Huxley (2013). “Man's Place in Nature”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Rather than something like King Kong where I really went after studying gorillas in the wild and captivity. I based Caesar [ from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] on a real chimpanzee and I worked with Terry [Notary] on a lot of chimpanzee movement.

  Andy Serkis

  Kings, Real, Captivity

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Atheism, Principles

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.23, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.

  Roger Fouts

  Cousin, Powerful, Years

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• Of course you're nervous, but we're really excited to be able to share what we're going to share. And it's cool, because what we're going to be doing, I think for fans especially, we think is really cool, because part of the process that most people don't ever get to see [is] that before these movies are movies starring photo-real apes, they're movies starring the image of Andy Serkis and the other actors, who are playing apes.

  Matt Reeves

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Found, Ideals

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• A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Saint, Bad Man

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• The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

  Quintus Ennius

  Beast

  As quoted in "De Natura Deorum" by Cicero, Book I, Chapter XXXV,

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• The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

  Brian Aldiss

  Lying, Achievement, Behinds

  1969 On space flight, in The Guardian.

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• Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Earth, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.

  Sean Price

  Real, Smart, People

  Source: www.okayplayer.com

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• Muslims insult all other religions. The Quran is an insult to the Jews, the Christians and everyone else. It calls the Jews apes, pigs and rats. All the non-believers are najis (filthy, impure) and hell bond. The Quran even instructs the Muslims to fight the unbelievers, chop their fingertips, behead them, crucify them and deal with them harshly. 5:33, 9:14, 9:73 However, Muslims went berserk when a Danish Newspaper published a few cartoons of Muhammad.

  Ali Sina

  Christian, Fighting, Pigs

  Source: myislam.dk

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• We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. We're not so far away from the gorillas and the apes, those beautiful creatures.

  Maurice Sendak

  Beautiful, Animal, Criminals

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dust, India, Extravagance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.153, Oxford University Press

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• Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape, a large-sized gorilla. It was in vain that I told myself I was losing my reason: I could entertain not the slightest doubt as to his species. But an encounter with a gorilla on the planet Soror was not the essential outlandishness of the situation. This for me lay in the fact that the ape was correctly dressed, like a man of our world, and above all that he wore his clothes in such an easy manner.

  Pierre Boulle

  Lying, Animal, Men

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• Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

  Jack London

  Lying, Cutting, Rocks

  Jack London (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jack London (Illustrated)”, p.464, Delphi Classics

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• We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.

  Riane Eisler

  Mother, Caring, Whales

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great apes) - this is a treasure for all humanity, and they are not for sale. They are not for trade. They need to be valued and preserved by humanity. We all need a global commitment to that.

  Patrick Bergin

  Commitment, Rhinos, Elephants

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the origin? What's happened in the human mind? Can we trace back the moment of the creation of human consciousness? And why did only humans gain consciousness, not other animals? So, evolution? I don't know whether or not I can believe evolution. Maybe we wait for another 100,000 years and then apes get consciousness.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Religious, Believe, Animal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.

  John Shelby Spong

  Angel, People, Perfect

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Regarded anatomically, the resemblances between the foot of Man and the foot of the Gorilla are far more striking and important than the differences... be the differences between the hand and foot of Man and those of the Gorilla what they may the differences between those of the Gorilla and those of the lower Apes are much greater.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Hands, Differences

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 110, 1863.

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• He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

  John Stuart Mill

  Self, Decision, Needs

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.34

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• None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.

  Dian Fossey

  Men, Wildlife, Teeth

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.

  Sue Townsend

  Father, Hair, Hands

  Sue Townsend (1991). “Adrian Mole, from Minor to Major: The Mole Diaries : the First Ten Years”

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• Telling me to relax or smile when I'm angry is like bringing a birthday cake into an ape sanctuary. You're just asking to get your nose and genitals bitten off.

  Amy Poehler

  Cake, Relax, Asking

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.179, Pan Macmillan

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