Primates Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A primatologist told me you can find love in the eyes of an orangutan. It's that old primate gleam that goes back thousands of years and can penetrate the deepest gloom of the jungle. Nothing can deter that gleam, which is why we primates have survived for so long to meet and procreate. In prison, the survival of romance is not easy, but it finds a way ... In Canada, there has been a succession of romances between prisoners and female guards, nurses, librarians, and one Catholic nun who married the convict after he divorced his wife.

  Shawn Thompson

  Eye, Years, Nurse

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• It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.

  Orson Scott Card

  Common, Submissive, Traits

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.264, Macmillan

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• This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

  Terence McKenna

  Unique, Civilization, Language

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• As a species, we tend to lie quite a bit - to ourselves and to each other. It's a primate thing. So, a reason to go into a career in science and technology, or to learn more about these subjects, is to become a more powerful person.

  Ann Druyan

  Powerful, Lying, Technology

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

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• I actually taught perceptual psychology at N.Y.U. when I was younger. I was interested in the aesthetic impulse in lower primates. But what really interested me in Dian Fossey was that she made a difference - she saved the gorillas.

  Arne Glimcher

  Differences, Psychology, Gorillas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

  Clay Shirky

  Gorillas, Life Is, Social

  Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Catholic, Church

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.39

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• We are just another primate but a very confused, malleable one.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Confused

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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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, Apes, Wildlife

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

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• And I tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from, had know that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they would have stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea.

  John Sheridan

  Ideas, Tree, Evolution

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• The black and white lemur, the one that relaxes on that branch, they actually have day care, like kindergartens; where all the mothers come together and they put all the babies into this one nest and they let dad watch it while they go out and have food and have a good time and then they come back in a few hours. We've never seen that in other primates.

  Patricia Wright

  Mother, Baby, Dad

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• However, what Article VI [of the U.S. Constitution] does not do, and was never intended to do, is deny me the right to say, as loudly as I may choose, that I will on no account vote for a smirking hick like Mike Huckabee, who is an unusually stupid primate but who does not have the elementary intelligence to recognize the fact that this is what he is.

  Mike Huckabee

  Stupid, Doe, May

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• Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  World, Corporations, Politician

  "The I in the Triangle". Speech held at a bookstore in Santa Cruz, California, 1990.

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