Quotes About Apes

At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adult Humans are sentient, young Human children are not. I admit to a certain fondness for this conclusion; if childen aren't nonsentient, they're certainly psychopathic)

At least one theory suggests that while great apes and adult Humans are sentient, young Human children are not.101 I admit to a certain fondness for this conclusion; if childen aren't nonsentient, they're certainly psychopathic). But

When talking apes from the future land on the beach, slay them.

Planet of the Apes, I did not need CC as I was watching the apes.

Put it this way: If I had to go back to 1968 and wear the makeup that John Chambers made for the original 'Planet of the Apes' series, I think I would rather wear a unitard.

I thought this was the most incredible opportunity. Because 'Planet Of The Apes,' aside from the fantasy element of talking apes, is such an amazing franchise, because under the surface of that genre, you're actually looking at human nature.

They're brutal, moronic, they have the ethical consciousness of apes and the initiative levels of sheep. But you took the field against the reptiles for them nonetheless. Why?" Ringil

Contrary to our metaphors, humans are much more imitative than the other apes. For example: if chimps watch a demonstration on how to get food out of a puzzle box, they, in their turn, skip any unnecessary steps, go straight to the treat. Human children overimitate, reproducing each step regardless of its necessity. There is some reason why, now that it's our behavior, being slavishly imitative is superior to being thoughtful and efficient, but I forget exactly what that reason is.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

How vain the opinion is of some certain people of the East Indies, who think that apes and baboons, which are with them in great numbers, are imbued with understanding, and that they can speak but will not, for fear they should be imployed and set to work. —Antoine Le Grand, c. 1675

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

THIS IS THE HOUSE OF TARZAN, THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.

Early the next morning I was astir. Considerable freedom was allowed me, as Sola had informed me that so long as I did not attempt to leave the city I was free to go and come as I pleased. She had warned me, however, against venturing forth unarmed, as this city, like all other deserted metropolises of an ancient Martian civilization, was peopled by the great white apes of my second day's adventure.

I have seen apes only at the fair, they must perform tricks, are chained up, a bitter fate, no human has one so hard

We are apes - we should be climbing.

The hypothetical aquatic phase of the ancestral apes during the fossil gap would have been brief, a matter of two or three million years.

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.

I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.

Darwin had asserted that the transmission of inherited intelligence was a key step in human evolution, driving our simian ancestors apart from the other apes.

'Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes' was really well done.

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

Don't fall. It seems we've struggled for so long. We've trampled on the backs of apes to clutch the muddied hems of angels.

The cyclist hit me, and it's vile after my life ends in the afterlife. Lots of incense, resin, apes and giraffe-tails--all acquired tastes. I don't like that kind of thing.