John F. Kennedy Quotes

It may surprise people to learn that one elephant is killed every 15 minutes for its ivory.

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

I saw firsthand the devastating consequences of poaching. I saw elephants with ivory hacked from their faces and the lengths private parks go to protect their precious wildlife.

When we find ourselves in groups or with charismatic individuals, we might do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.

Most people are sheep, and they need the support of others.

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory.

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.

Elephants are contagious.

It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

I remember being taught my place.

Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

… blind followers …

As soon as a certain number of living beings are gathered together ... they place themselves instinctively under the authority of a chief. In the case of human crowds the chief is often nothing more than a ringleader or agitator, but as such he plays a considerable part.

I go not back of the convention, to make distinctions among its’ members.

The multitude, who require to be led, still hate their leaders.

Nations are herds of cattle

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

We wish to firmly demonstrate to the world our determination to eliminate all forms of illegal trade in ivory. Poachers and illegal trades in ivory must know that their days are numbered.

Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!

Circus lions are mean. They don't know anything about affection training.

It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.