"We can't leave people in abject poverty, so……" — Jane Goodall
"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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138 Quotes by Jane Goodall
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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 Abject Quotes
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to…
— Jean Baudrillard
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The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all…
— Jean Baudrillard
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I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to…
— Berkeley Breathed
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Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
— John O. Brennan
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
— Charles Darwin
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him…
— Bertrand Russell
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or…
— William Hazlitt
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Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.
— Epictetus
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The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon…
— George Washington
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than…
— Antony Flew
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