Jane Goodall Quotes

You don't know whether chimps are going to kill you or kiss you. They're very open on some levels and much more evil in a certain way.

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!

I have a lot of hostility.

What the country needs is the annihilation of the enemy.

Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.

If we have to go to war, we will.

Many causes produce war. There are ancient hatreds, turbulent frontiers, the "legacy of old forgotten, far-off things, and battles long ago." There are new-born fanaticisms. Convictions on the part of certain peoples that they have become the unique depositories of ultimate truth and right.

It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

My sentence is for open war.

A point has been reached where the peoples of the Americas must take cognizance of growing ill-will, of marked trends toward aggression, of increasing armaments, of shortening tempers--a situation which has in it many of the elements that lead to the tragedy of general war.... Peace is threatened by those who seek selfish power.

Find what strength you have to terrorize your enemy and the enemy of God.

I never hugged him, I bombed him.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

There can be no compromise with war.

The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

Breaking into a country signals quite reliably a willingness to break yet more of the invaded country's laws.

If you quit being cunty, the whole world will stop being against you.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

The only good enemy is a dead enemy.