Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
JANE GOODALLWe have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Thousands of people who say they ‘love’ animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terrors of the abattoirs
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I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.
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I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I’m out in nature. It’s just something that’s bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it’s enough for me.
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We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place–or not to bother
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There is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
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He had instigated a detailed study of the limb bones and locomotor patterns of a number of modern antelopes; the functions of varying bone structures of their legs could then be ascertained. Then, from the structure of fossil antelope bones reconstructed their movements.
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I like to envision the whole world as a jigsaw puzzle. If you look at the whole picture, it is overwhelming and terrifying, but if you work on your little part of the jigsaw and know that people all over the world are working on their little bits, that’s what will give you hope.
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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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Arguably, we are the most intellectual creatures that’s ever walked on planet Earth. So how come, then, that this so intellectual creature is destroying its only home?
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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And so began one of the most exciting periods of my life, the time of discovery.
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It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.
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We can’t leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.
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The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
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Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.
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