Desmond Morris Quotes
Best The Human Zoo Quotes by Desmond Morris
The Human Zoo Quotes
“In little more than a single century from 1820 to 1945, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another. We describe these killings as men behaving like animals, but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.”
“The word ‘love’ is, in fact, the way we commonly describe the emotional feelings that accompany the imprinting process.”
“The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.”
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“Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.”
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