Bonobo Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Puritans, like poachers, shoot to kill your inner bonobo

Susan Block

#3. Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

Frans De Waal

#4. Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

Anderson Cooper

#5. Bonobo discipline involves being schooled in a gentler, more playful fashion.

Susan Block

#6. Party like a bonobo!

Susan Block

#7. The bonobo would first of all urge the atheist to stop "sleeping furiously." There is no point getting all worked up about the absence of something, especially something as open to interpretation as God.

Frans De Waal

#8. Release your Inner Bonobo

Susan Block

#9. What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

Susan Block

#10. Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo as my closest living relative. It makes me feel a part of the world.

Richard Fortey

#11. Studies are one thing, but then there's just the way bonobos make you feel. They're so "almost-human" on so many levels that science doesn't even know how to test yet. Just look into any bonobo's big brown eyes, and you may well feel like you're connecting with a living version of the Missing Link.

Susan Block

#12. Imagine you're a writer, and you have decided to offer your readers a firsthand account of the politically correct primate, the idol of the left, known for its "gay" relations, female supremacy, and pacific lifestyle. Your focus is the bonobo: a close relation of the chimpanzee. You

Frans De Waal

#13. We were born into a peace of plenty, a pleasure-economy, a bonobo masturbation society. The future that our elite handlers have in store for us advertises more of the same. More detached pleasure, less risk, freedom from want, more masturbation.

Jack Donovan

#14. The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and traumatic as possible. All this it has accomplished fairly well, even without overturning Roe v. Wade .

Ellen Willis

#15. Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than us - and they don't build houses or churches or Pentagons like we do - these primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely "human," and enter the realm of the truly "humane.

Susan Block

#16. Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Lord Chesterfield

#17. It is said that man is wolf to man. I find this very unfair to wolves.

Frans De Waal

#18. You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.

Jean Racine

#19. MILFs rule Bonoboville

Susan Block

#20. No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Helen Rowland

#21. Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.

John Updike

#22. In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm

Susan Block

#23. Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous "make love not war" great apes who swing through the trees as well as with each other.

Susan Block

#24. On a scale of one to sexy I'm at a solid awkward turtle ninety percent of the time.

Kandi Steiner

#25. He was born stupid, and greatly increased his birthright.

Samuel Butler

#26. I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet.

Andy Weir

#27. The riot screws didn't give a monkey's about the state he was in, no sir. They dragged him by his hair in to the first cell that was opened, where he was stripped and beaten.

Stephen Richards

#28. We are taught to reinvent ourselves all the time. And nature is teaching us. What is necessary for us to do to create sustainability? There's a shift that has to take hold in our thinking, and it's hard to know when it's going to click for the larger percentage of us.

Horst Rechelbacher

#29. Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don't know about you, but that's closer than I feel to some of my human relatives.

Susan Block

#30. Bonobos are... ambassadors from a primordial world of peace through pleasure, inviting us in one kiss at a time.

Susan Block