Jane Goodall Quotes

We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

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.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love.

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

Without public pressure from caring people, our lawsuits will not be enough to stop this widespread abuse.

I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

The Europeans do not respect human rights alone but go further and defend animal rights in the manner of that tart Brigitte Bardot. They even defend vegetation rights like those of trees in public parks. Indeed they equate liberty and permissiveness, notably in sexual matters.

I think one of the reasons that Arch Enemy gels so well as people and musically is because we all share very similar values when it comes to human rights, animal rights... even politics, religion.

I would be more angry if an animal were treated cruelly than people, because people can defend themselves.

How we take care of our animals is a very good indicator of how we are doing as a society. It is symbolic of how, as human beings, we go about treating each other.

I know young people are all going to have different passions, but I would say that if you happen to have a heart for animals, never forget that without your voice, there is no channel for them.

My love for animals started before I can remember.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

The thing about animals that speaks to me so much is that my passion for the animals and against animal abuse is based on the knowledge that these creatures which think and feel can't speak for themselves. I feel it is my responsibility to speak for those who can't speak for themselves.

The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals.

I always befriended animals and have said many a good word for them. Even to the least-loved mosquitoes I gave many a meal, and told them to go in peace.

We are often more merciful to our animals than we are to each other.

Animals don't have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one.

I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.

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.

We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.

I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights.