Jane Goodall Quotes

There is a growing scientific consensus that animals have emotions and feel pain. This awareness is going to effect change: better treatment of animals in agribusiness, research and our general interaction with them. It will change the way we eat, live and preserve the planet.

I've always loved animals and I always thought that they were, if not better, then the absolute equal of any two legged creature that God ever created.

Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

Our motto is we respect and honour the pigness of the pig and the chickenness of the chicken. That means not confining them in a house with hundreds of others.

PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

If apes are given the right to humane treatment, it just might become harder to deny that same right to their human cousins.

My friends at PeTA India and I encourage everyone to treat animals with kindness and respect, just as we all want to be treated every day.

I was always empathetic with animals. It's a terrible and self-involved point of view that we do something because someone else is exploitable.

I have always felt that the way we treat animals is a pretty good indicator of the compassion we are capable of for the human race.

We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

We're all animals.

I just want to reflect the respect I have for animals.

Animal welfare issues have always been important to me.

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.