Primates Quotes - Page 3

• In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates.

  Frans de Waal

  Mother, Children, Father

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• To neglect the common ground with other primates, and to deny the evolutionary roots of human morality, would be like arriving at the top of a tower to declare that the rest of the building is irrelevant, that the precious concept of "tower" ought to be reserved for the summit.

  Frans de Waal

  Roots, Arriving, Would Be

  Frans de Waal (2009). “Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Modern Life, Peasants, Moron

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• The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there, Many a monk and many a friar, Many a knight and many a squire, With a great many more of lesser degree,-- In sooth a goodly company; And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee. Never, I ween, Was a prouder seen, Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams, Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Dream, Book, Knights

  'The Ingoldsby Legends' (First Series, 1840) 'The Jackdaw of Rheims'

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• PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gentleman, Church, Palaces

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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

  Jonathan Haidt

  Social

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• You know, there are just some things you never expect to face even on this job. A flying primate that shoots fire out its nose is one of them.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Fire, Flying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1157, Macmillan

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• Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

  Michael Shermer

  Emotional, Religion, Atheism

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• We remain of the view that in many areas of research we are still reliant on primates to achieve our goals for improving human health

  Colin Blakemore

  Animal, Views, Goal

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• [A primate ban] would force us to abandon research that could lead to treatments for Alzheimer's, motor neurone disease, strokes and many other illnesses

  Tipu Aziz

  Animal, Alzheimer's, Research

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• Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

  Frans de Waal

  Hippie, People, Ironic

  "The Bonobo in All of Us". Interview with Sue Western, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2005.

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• But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

  Jane Goodall

  Compassion, Order, Heritage

  Jane Goodall (2010). “Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to the point of aggression, only at the time of ovulation. Why has sexual responsiveness become nearly continuous? Unusually frequent sexual activity between males and females served as the principle device for cementing the pair bond.

  E. O. Wilson

  Pairs, Principles, Males

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• We're just a conceited, naked ape. But in our minds we're some sort of "divine legend," and we see ourselves as some sort of god. That we can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved. But the fact is we're just a bunch of primates out of control.

  Paul Watson

  Thinking, Conceited, Mind

  "Sharkwater". Documentary, September 11, 2006.

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• Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information - that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/ conditioned reality-tunnel

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Animal, Reality, Tunnels

  Robert Anton Wilson (1990). “Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World”, New Falcon Publications

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• You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

  Eoin Colfer

  Pride, Tasks, Display

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion

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• Primates are the only animals on the face of the earth that can taste sweet and see color. We were designed by nature to see, grasp, eat, and enjoy the flavor of colorful, sweet fruits.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Sweet, Animal, Color

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• First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated.

  Russell Banks

  Running, Men, White

  Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

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• Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.

  Desmond Morris

  Sex, Loyal, Might

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we shall remain, however often we learn to find joy in a camellia on moss. This is the very purpose of education.

  Muriel Barbery

  Civilization, Joy, Triumph

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, books.google.ru. September 2, 2013.

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• I’ve never met anyone who had a monkey for a friend before. (Maggie) I don’t know. I think those two guys you were with would qualify as primates, but then, that’s an insult to the primate and I don’t want Marvin to get pissed at me. He has higher sensibilities, you know? (Wren)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Two, Guy

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• We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.

  Murray Bookchin

  Spring, Ocean, Journey

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• When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know.

  Frans de Waal

  Knows

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• I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood. All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.

  Frans de Waal

  Groups, Sleepy, Mood

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• I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.

  Paul McCartney

  Dog, Pain, Cat

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