“Every one has seen how jealous a dog is of his master's affection, if lavished on any other creature; and I have observed the same fact with monkeys.”
— Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871), volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", pp. 41-42
“Cats and monkey, monkey and cats - all human life is there.”
— Henry James, The Madonna of the Future (1879)
“It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?”
— Spider Robinson, God is an Iron and Other Stories, (2002) "God is an Iron," (1977)
“ياواخد القرد علي ماله يروح المال و يفضل القرد علي حاله”
— Egyptian proverb
“Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutan shave been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.”
— Jane Goodall in response to: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?" Discover Magazine interview with Virginia Morell (28 March 2007)
“Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.”
— Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living, (1937), p. 36

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