Jane Goodall Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution - and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

  Jane Goodall

  God, Spiritual, Compassion

• Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

  Jane Goodall

  Respect, Compassion, Understanding

  Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall (1999). “Jane Goodall: 40 years at Gombe : a tribute to four decades of wildlife research, education, and conservation”, Stewart, Tabori and Chang

• We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.

  Jane Goodall

  Attitude, Compassion, Animal

• We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

  Jane Goodall

  Compassion, And Love, Realizing

  FaceBook post by Dr. Jane Goodall from Aug 17, 2013

• There are many animal-welfare groups that sometimes seem to forget that human beings are animals too, that we need to include them in our sphere of compassion.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Compassion, Groups

• It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

  Jane Goodall

  Fighting, Sacrifice, Compassion

• Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Compassion, Animal

• There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Animal, Compassion

  "Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall: Empathizing with Animals and Touching People’s Hearts". Interview with Lauren Kearney, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

  Jane Goodall

  Compassion, Order, Heritage

  Jane Goodall (2010). “Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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