“And people who believe in God think God has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. Or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.”
“When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.”
“There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind.”
“In zoos, along with the animals, the humanity of man is also prisoned! No cage is humane!”
“It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved from animals for no purpose at all.”
“human beings are inherently social and trusting animals.”