Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

We’re the only animal that wakes up and doesn’t stretch.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance, and I cried like a little baby.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

The chimpanzee study was – well, it’s still going on, and I think it’s taught us perhaps more than anything else to be a little humble; that we are, indeed, unique primates, we humans, but we’re simply not as different from the rest of the animal kingdom as we used to think.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that’s a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

I’m just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

On the day-long follows that I used to do with mothers and their offspring – these chimp families that I knew so well – there was hardly a day when I didn’t learn something new about them.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It’s an unfortunate parallel to human behavior – they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

War is the province of danger.