{"quotes":[{"text":"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).","author":"Andrew Westoll","tags":["animal-rights","apes","caring","empathy","moral-responsibility"],"id":282,"author_id":"Andrew+Westoll"},{"text":"No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.","author":"Henry Fairfield Osborn","tags":["anthropoid","apes","biology","evolution","homo-sapiens","human-evolution","humans","man","primates","relation","science"],"id":8478,"author_id":"Henry+Fairfield+Osborn"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jacob M. Appel","tags":["apes","biologists","biology","darwin","evolution","evolutionary-biology","humor","moneys","primate","primates","progress","science","scopes","scopes-monkey-trial"],"id":20390,"author_id":"Jacob+M.+Appel"},{"text":"For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs—as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["ape","apes","belief","evolution","great-ape","great-apes","humanity","humans","man","preference","sacrifice","slavery","superstition","torture"],"id":28694,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.","author":"Will Cuppy","tags":["animals","apes","humor","humorous","mammals","primates"],"id":54252,"author_id":"Will+Cuppy"},{"text":"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.","author":"Arthur C. Clarke","tags":["ancestor","apes","death","sadness","science"],"id":106781,"author_id":"Arthur+C.+Clarke"},{"text":"Apes or human – we all made the same mistake, tempted by shifting leaves or the smell of sex, by music or a ripe banana.","author":"Kathryn Davis","tags":["apes","humans"],"id":129137,"author_id":"Kathryn+Davis"},{"text":"But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.","author":"Pierre Boulle","tags":["apes","books","imitation","language","theme","writing"],"id":144591,"author_id":"Pierre+Boulle"},{"text":"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["apes","chandler","humor","ooze","philosophy","raymond-chandler","television"],"id":199284,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anton Szandor LaVey","tags":["animals","apes","gorillas","hair","man"],"id":208823,"author_id":"Anton+Szandor+LaVey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}