When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic than any primate that I know.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

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?

If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament.

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

We are territorial, power-hungry and even more brutal than chimpanzees.

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Socialism cannot function, because its economic reward structure is contrary to human nature.

Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

Don’t think I’m going off to find myself though. I already know who I am.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

We don't have a Steve Jobs here. I'm sorry, but we don't.

Football is and always will be a game of blocking and hitting