72 Ape Quotes for You to Enjoy

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes. Frans de Waal

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament. Frans de Waal

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It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender embraces. Frans de Waal

Other Wild Say Consoling Distressed Embraces Tender Spontaneous Well Well Known Known Offer Against Ape Companions Each Assistance Defending

Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement. Gary Bauer

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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Book Mirror Out Look Likely Looks Ape Apostle Hardly

I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far. George A. Romero

Society Beyond Go Want Ape Far Planet Zombie

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. Geraldine Brooks

Animal Only Dogs Ape Elephants

Language turned apes like us into civil creatures. Greg Gutfeld

Language Civil Like Ape Turned Us Creatures

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. Honore de Balzac

Country Tries Paris Becomes Provincial Ape Ridiculous

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints. J. Lee Thompson

It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated. Jane Goodall

Win Relatives Pressure Living Our Evolutionary Could Between Principle Were Been Brain Brains Huge Inferior Closest May Human Human Brain Warfare Ape Created Wars Therefore Whole Gap Groups Actually Suggested

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. Jean Rostand

Too Recognition Must Greatness Often Order Gain Ape Consent

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years. Joe Elliott

Love You People Fall Back Songs Part Over Go Years Legacy Stones Them Ape Satisfaction Why Play

I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.' Josh Tillman

You Yourself Thinking Songwriter Josh Like Stop Ape

Like many actors, I started off as a monkey. My first job ever was as an extra in Tim Burton's 'Planet of the Apes.' I'm the tiny little monkey in the background. I met Rick Baker doing that - then, because of my size and the fact I was older than 18, he figured I could double Daveigh Chase in 'The Ring.' Kelly Stables

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If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere. Kirk Hammett

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