Jane Goodall Quotes

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Fighting is not a man's thing, it is a human thing.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?'

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

He who stays on the defensive does not make war, he endures it.

People must lean the strategies of non-violence as a skill for use in their homes, their work and in making social change….Violence is an inarticulate language.

I have desired as sincerely as any man—I sometimes think more than any other man—that our present difficulties might be settled without the shedding of blood.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

I come from a background where, if someone is rough and tough, you handle things physically. People betrayed me, and you just want to choke them. But you choose forgiveness.

I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

I will not try to escape fights if someone tries to poke or trigger me.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.