Top 100 Apes The Quotes
#1. I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.
Frans De Waal
#2. Our species may yet end its strange eventful history as just the last, the cleverest of the great apes. The great ape that was clever - but not clever enough. It could escape from most things but not from its own mental confusion.
H.G.Wells
#3. I have a deep sympathy with war; it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. Apes. The moon woke them
round the world's navel revolved
prayer wheels of steps.
Dag Hammarskjold
#5. Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything.
Rudyard Kipling
#6. Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
Oscar Wilde
#7. You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.
Andy Serkis
#8. The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#9. The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.
Michael Crichton
#10. But there is every reason to think that the bulging cortex which would later measure stars and ice ages was still a dim, impoverished region in a skull box whose capacity was no greater than that of great apes.
Loren Eiseley
#11. They looked like two apes pounding their chest and asking for a banana. The thing about me - I was not so willing to give just anyone my fucking banana. Every benefit should outweigh the cost.
Krista Ritchie
#12. Darwin may have been quite correct in his theory that man descended from the apes of the forest, but surely woman rose from the frothy sea, as resplendent as Aphrodite on her scalloped chariot.
Margot Datz
#13. Would the Gardners and the workers at the Yerkes Primate Center be remembered dimly as legendary folk heroes or gods of another species? Would there be myths, like those of Prometheus, Thoth, or Cannes, about divine beings who had given the gift of language to the apes?
Carl Sagan
#14. 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
#15. He said that while Clemence adored the sacrament, he meditated on how it could be possible that humans had evolved out of apes only to sit gaping at a round white cracker.
Louise Erdrich
#16. Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are
retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.
Edward Abbey
#17. And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
William Shakespeare
#18. Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The [Tarzan movie] apes were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.
Maureen O'Sullivan
#19. 'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
J. Lee Thompson
#20. 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.
Diane Williams
#21. The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
Ofir Drori
#22. Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.
Michael Specter
#23. 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
#24. But don't they look like apes, now, fighting over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty.
Thomas Pynchon
#25. We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#26. I watched Picasso visit the Planet of the Apes, as the masters rot on walls and the angels eat the grapes.
Adam Ant
#27. There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium.
Desmond Morris
#28. In this chapter I will focus on the evidence that humans are paedomorphic apes; in the next chapter I will consider the role of self-domestication in human social behavior. The German
Anonymous
#29. Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
#30. Anyway, our fellow apes eat insects out of each other's fur; maybe bath bombs and body glitter are the modern human equivalent.
Emily Nagoski
#31. The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.
James Lee
#33. I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
Abraham Maslow
#34. Whatever part of the animal fabric whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison the result would be the same the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man.
Thomas Huxley
#35. There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.
Gore Vidal
#36. Hair on a man's chest is thought to denote strength. The gorilla is the most powerful of bipeds and has hair on every place on his body except for his chest.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#37. 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
#38. I think the true ascent of man, the moment when humans divided irrevobably from apes and other fellow creatures, occurred with the birth of the first distinct soul. And much happiness ensued.
Ann Brashares
#39. Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#40. human beings are actually more closely related to the two species of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes, the familiar chimp, and Pan paniscus, the rare, smaller pygmy chimp or bonobo) than those chimpanzees are to the other apes.
Daniel C. Dennett
#41. Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly
Francis Bacon
#42. It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.
Dian Fossey
#43. Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.
Colleen Atwood
#44. 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.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#46. A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.
Jacob M. Appel
#48. except for behaving like apes much of the time and suffering genetically limited life spans, we are godlike.
Edward O. Wilson
#49. My guilty pleasures tend to be weird, old shows that I find on channel 20 that I've never seen before like 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea' or the 'Planet of the Apes' TV show.
Edward Kitsis
#50. I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.
W.C. Fields
#51. Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
Terence McKenna
#52. -Appointments? You can't be serious. With all due respect, they have the cognitive capacity of chimpanzees right now.-
-And if we want to change that, we will start treating them as human beings, not a mob of apes.-
Neal Shusterman
#53. It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
Sugata Mitra
#54. our distinction from the apes has brought us TV, the police, and the rituals of Valentine's Day.
Steve W. Duck
#55. The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.
Gary Larson
#57. At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.
Bo Burnham
#59. 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
Richard K. Morgan
#60. Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
Juvenal
#61. There is no reason to teach an ape to become human. There are many reasons to teach some apes and some humans to transition the worlds between the species boundaries, especially when our genetics are so similar as to make us 'siblings.' It is the way to learn how we become that which we are.
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
#63. With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'
Leonard Maltin
#64. Like other mammals, they are capable of strong emotions. They have certainly committed no crimes. I do not claim to have the answer, but I think it is
certainly worthwhile to raise the question: Why, exactly, all over the civilized world, in virtually every major city, are apes in prison?
Carl Sagan
#65. I'd say probably the most expensive costumes I've ever made were the costumes in 'The Planet of the Apes,' because of the research and development that went into them and the amount of layers.
Colleen Atwood
#66. Our will to power, our science, and those v. faculties that elevated us from apes, to savages, to modern man, are the same faculties that'll snuff out Homo sapiens before this century is out!
David Mitchell
#67. When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.
Richard Griffiths
#68. Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.
Lynn Margulis
#70. Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
Konrad Lorenz
#71. These top-water nigger preachers . . . like apes . . . mouths like Number 2 cans . . . twist the Gospel . . . the court prefers to listen to Communists . . . take 'em all out and shoot 'em for treason . . . Against
Harper Lee
#72. 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
#73. We're still just the world's premium brand of ape.
Rick Bayan
#74. Apes have a wide variety of sexual arrangements. That means, by the way, that there is no such thing as an "ape legacy" that humans are doomed to live by.
Steven Pinker
#75. I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.
Jon Stewart
#76. In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.
Eban Goodstein
#77. We are bipedal apes, and it should not be surprising to see that fact reflected in the way our ancestors lived.
Richard Leakey
#78. Humans are unique in having the astonishing capacity to extend our sympathies far beyond the here and now. through time and space, to anywhere and anything we choose. It is our culture that decides how large and inclusive our moral circle is, but it is each of us who makes up our culture. (p.250)
Andrew Westoll
#79. Such cases deserve attention since they show that apes do not have to be prompted by experimental conditions concocted by us humans to plan for the future. They do so of their own accord.
Frans De Waal
#80. I can't imagine childhood without 'Planet of the Apes.' I was nine or ten when the first one came out.
Gary Oldman
#81. As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.
Diane Ackerman
#82. The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.
Norman O. Brown
#83. Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
Ben Jonson
#84. Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo
habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are
the only surviving species.
Joe Quirk
#85. He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.
Arthur C. Clarke
#86. Difference which exists between the lowest, so-called men, and the other higher races is greater than between the lowest men and the highest apes.
Adolf Hitler
#88. Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.
Bauvard
#89. "Slightly lower than the angels" is a whole lot better than slightly higher than the apes. Let's get the order straight. God, angelic beings, man, animals, and vegetables.
Stuart Briscoe
#90. I actually liked Rise of the Planet of the Apes. I remember just watching it and being pleasantly surprised with that movie. I didn't think it would be as good as it was, so I love that movie.
Ashley Tisdale
#91. 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.
Andy Serkis
#92. Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.
Thomas Mullen
#93. 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,' while not nearly the masterpiece proclaimed by many critics, is certainly a fascinating cross-species: a big-budget summer action fantasy with a sylvan, indie-film vibe, and a war movie that dares ask its audience to root for the peacemakers.
Richard Corliss
#94. Does anyone remember how we used to get cash before ATM's? Did we have to go inside the bank? Then what? We lived like apes!
Dana Gould
#95. Words, then, are born of worlds. But they also take us places we can't go: Constantinople and Mars, Valhalla, the Planet of the Apes. Language comes from what we've seen, touched, loved, lost. And it uses knowable things to give us glimpses of what's not. The Word, after all, is God.
Alena Graedon
#96. P33- the son of an english lord and an english lady nursed at the breast of kala, the great ape.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#97. In a weird way, if you look at all the 'Apes' movies, they all seem like different stories in the same universe. 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' is definitely a continuation, but the other ones jump all around chronologically.
Matt Reeves
#99. Sometimes I believe evolution is an insult to the apes.
Tonya Johnson
#100. I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.
Andy Serkis
