Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
JANE GOODALLThere is a powerful force unleashed when young people resolve to make a change.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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Here was a chimpanzee using a tool. That was object modification- the crude beginning of tool making.
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I love dogs, not chimps. Some chimps are nice, and some are horrid. I don’t actually think of them as animals any more than I think of us as animals, although both of us are.
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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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If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
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Sometimes I [longed to be a chimp] I just wanted to know. what it felt like in the evening to be making a nest and what it felt like to be a female when a big male comes thundering in.
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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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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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A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
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How can you stop yourself from yelling and shouting and accusing everyone of cruelty? The easy answer is that the aggressive approach simply doesn’t work.
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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 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.
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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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