If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.
JANE GOODALLFrom the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
More Jane Goodall Quotes
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People say to me so often, ‘Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,’ and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.
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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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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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Without patience I could never have succeeded.
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We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was just human .
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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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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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From the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back.
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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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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?
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Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.
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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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I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.
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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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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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