The chimpanzees could tear me apart in no time. They're many times stronger than we are.

In Africa, we have the bush meat trade, which means that, on a very large scale, animals are being killed in the forests and sold in the cities as a luxury food.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order.

Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors.