"The least I can do is speak out……" — Jane Goodall
"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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138 Quotes by Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall has 138 quotes on this site.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers…
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If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will…
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Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
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You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we…
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I don't care two hoots about civilization. I want to wander in the wild.
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I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with…
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It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of…
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I have found that to love and be loved is the most empowering and exhilarating of all human emotions.
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I learnt from Flo how to be mother. Flo was patient, tolerant. She was supportive. She was always there. She…
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Chimps are unbelievably like us - in biological, non-verbal ways. They can be loving and compassionate and yet they have…
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They used to ask: "How will this decision that we make today affect our people in the future?" Now we…
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More Cannot Speak Quotes
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I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
— Jane Austen
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An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
— Jean Cocteau
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.
— Euripides
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To my mind, you cannot speak about the need for leadership within our communities without being prepared to take on…
— Jackie Huggins
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Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their…
— Rukmini Devi Arundale
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The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the…
— Werner Heisenberg
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We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The…
— Wangari Maathai
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They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Man can live his truth, his deepest truth, but cannot speak it.
— Archibald MacLeish
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True forgiveness deals with the past, all of the past, to make the future possible. We cannot go on nursing…
— Desmond Tutu
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You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot…
— Jim Rohn
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