Some people say, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior. We’re not very good at it though, are we?
JANE GOODALLThat is our hope. Because if we all start listening and helping, then surely, together, we can make the world a better place for all living things. Can’t we?
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.
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Very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.
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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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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves
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You may not believe in evolution, and that’s all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important that how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don’t change.
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I’d like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
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People said, Jane, forget about this nonsense with Africa. Dream about things you can achieve.
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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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And always I have this feeling-which may not be true at all-that I am being used as a messenger.
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