“Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.”

“In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.”

“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.”

“We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect”

“we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.”

“It can be really painful to have to face how fucked up shit is and how scared people are…of being alive. Scared of things that are amazing. Scared of things that aren’t like television or aren’t dead. A lot of people can’t deal with three-dimensional human beings, they only know how to deal with other products — they see themselves as other products. When the world only treats you like a dot on a marketing scheme, you can learn to treat yourself and other people like that.”