Quotes about Monkeys

In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.

God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.

and he was as ready for mischief as a wilderness of monkeys.

Unlike these verses from the Koran, references to dehumanization in the hadith compiled two or three centuries later have a distinctly anti-Jewish flavor. They describe how a group of Israelites were transformed into rats, how unbelievers are turned into monkeys and pigs, and how Abraham's father was transformed into an animal and hurled into the raging fires of hell.