Apes Quotes

• Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.

  William Winwood Reade

  Believe, Angel, Men

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.395

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• I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Angel, Rising

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.150, Random House

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• Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men

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• We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

  Laurence Olivier

  Mock

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• Who are we? That is the big question. And essentially we are just an upright-walking, big-brained, super-intelligent ape.

  Louise Leakey

  Intelligent, Bigs, Walking

  "A dig for humanity's origins". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realize that we are apes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Orangutans, Evolution, Realizing

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Humility, Pride, Devil

  'The Devil's Thoughts' (1799)

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• I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Men, Missing, Links

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

  Geraldine Brooks

  Dog, Animal, Elephants

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• It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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

  Jean Rostand

  Greatness, Order, Gains

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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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

  Funny, Book, Mirrors

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 49, 1799.

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• It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

  Noam Chomsky

  Language, Faculty, Higher

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• Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Photography, Cost, World

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

  Al Roker

  Baby, Anger, Kids

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• It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Football, Humor

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• It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Selfish, Men, Savages

  "The Strange Fiction of Devon Pitlor: Volume III". Book by Devon Pitlor, p. 241, May 27, 2014.

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• On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.

  Colleen Atwood

  Team, Online, Planets

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• A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fall, Men, Hands

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1216, Delphi Classics

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• Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

  Arthur Helps

  Book, Reading, Men

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• At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Dog, Time, Men

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Kids, Battle, Film

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• When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

  Charles Lyell

  Skulls, Return, England

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Movie, Political, Viewpoints

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• Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Fire, Tree, Understanding

  George Gaylord Simpson (1967). “The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man”, p.345, Yale University Press

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