"If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?"

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Source : Frans de Waal (2007). “Chimpanzee Politics: Power and Sex Among Apes”, p.3, JHU Press

Frans de Waal

#Eye Quotes #Animal Quotes #Intelligent Quotes

“At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists. It was an area other artists hadn't touched. Then, I went on from there. I manipulated my image - distorting it, brutalizing it. People thought I was mad, but I felt I had to tell these things. It gave me a kind of excitement.”
“I think all of our ministers are relatively inexperienced. I'm relatively inexperienced. We're a six-month-old government.”
“A lot of addiction actually ends by age 30 - something like 50 percent of all addictions with the exception of tobacco - and I think a lot of what's going on there is that the self-control areas of the brain are finally developed enough to be able to stop yourself from relapsing or just continuing. There is a maturational aspect to it as well.”
“Watch yourself with all diligence, lest the enemy steals near and robs you, depriving you of this great treasure, which is inner peace and stillness of soul. The enemy strives to destroy the peace of the soul, because he knows that when the soul is in turmoil it is more easily led to evil. But you must guard your peace.”
“I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.”

Source : Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. August 23, 2011.
“I don't think anyone is free”
“We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.”
“There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.”

Source : In re Tyler, Tyler v. Tyler (1891), L. R. 3 C. D. [1891], p. 258,

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