“[Saying that humans are related to apes is] an insult to apes. Experts say that violence is unknown among the creatures. They are generally gentle. They don't need to be continually policed so that they don't rape and murder like progressive man.”

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”

“Haven't seen any of the movies in which Rekha aped me. I think it is highly improbable that a lady should ape me. If it is so, then all I can say is that i am terribly flattered.”

“If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?”

“Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.”

“The man-like Apes… have certain characters of structure and of distribution in common.”

“Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.”

“I don't believe you're an ape: You're made in the image of God, with the knowledge of right and wrong.”

“I assume he was descended from apes like all the rest of us, but clearly in his case it had been a fairly gentle slope.”

“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes — the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.”