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I have no friends.
War is the usual condition of Europe.
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
We do not take humor seriously enough.
The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.
Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!
I owe undying gratitude to my patient parents.
Where there is authority, there is no freedom.
I have made my home among the mountain gorillas.
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
The human soul is very much older than the human mind.
Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.
The cat is a wild animal that inhabits the homes of humans.
Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.
The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past.
Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.
As an anarchist, I cannot reconcile myself to any government.
When one has talent, everything contributes to its development.
The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.
I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.
Hatred of humanity and love of animals make a very bad combination.
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.
Just thinking that my dog loves me more than I love him, I feel shame.
Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot!
The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.
Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.
Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.
There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog
The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.
We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.
The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.
The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.
War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.
The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.
I consider early childhood events as most essential to a man's scientific and philosophical development.