Desmond Morris

Citações de livro “The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study Of the Human Animal”, dum certo Desmond Morris, em “Sounds Of the Animal Kingdom” (1997):

“… we are, despite all our great technological advances, still very much a simple biological phenomenon. Despite our grandiose ideas and our lofty self-conceits, we are still humble animals, subject to all the basic laws of animal behavior…”

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“Hell remains a very democratic place in most religions, with unbaptized stillborns thown in the same lake of fire with serial killers and child rapists. What you call monsters are superior forms, beyond your understanding. Isn’t a man of genius a monster, like a tiger or a spider, like all individuals who live beyond social lies. It isn’t dying that’s sad; it’s living when you’re not happy. The sexual organ, far from being an object of infamy and image of impurity, was a god. I took atrocious delight in accusing myself, making myself uglier, more of an outcast and blacker than I was. Have you become senseless – as senseless as a member of the majority? We live under the laws of war. It consists of massacring as many men as you can in the least possible time. Hospitality versus hostility?“