“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.”
A similar remark was reportedly made by Pratchett in The Herald (4 October 2004): I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Context: Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
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