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The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal QUOTES

1 " ...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, 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. "

― Desmond Morris , The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal

2 " Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. The "

― Desmond Morris , The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal

3 " The establishment’s reply is that dissenting students are bent, not on positive innovation, but on negative disruption. Against this, however, it can be argued that these two processes are very closely related and that the former only degenerates into the latter when it finds itself blocked. "

― Desmond Morris , The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal

4 " The word ‘love’ is, in fact, the way we commonly describe the emotional feelings that accompany the imprinting process. "

― Desmond Morris , The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal

5 " The only reason why we are always having the doctrine of original sin instilled into us, in one form or another, is that the artificial conditions of the super-tribe keep on working against our biological altruism, and it needs all the help it can get. "

― Desmond Morris , The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal

6 " This is one of the prices that the biological tribesman must pay for becoming an artificial super-tribesman. The only solution is to find a brilliant, rational, balanced, deep-thinking brain housed in a glamorous, flamboyant, self-assertive, colourful personality. Contradictory? Yes. Impossible? Perhaps; but there is a glimmer of hope in the fact that the very size of the super-tribe, which causes the problem in the first place, also offers literally millions of potential candidates. "

― Desmond Morris , The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal