Jane Goodall Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...

  Jane Goodall

  Inspiring, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Ten Trusts". Book by Jane Goodall, ‎Marc Bekoff, 2003.

• Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Animal, Effort

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman, 2000.

• To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Science, Animal

• I believe that the tragedy [like terror attack] that's caused so much grief and suffering to so many thousands and thousands of people has also served as a call to action, because many people now are re-examining their own value systems, and the churches, temples, mosques and cathedrals are packed to overflowing for the first time in years.

  Jane Goodall

  Grief, Believe, Years

  Source: www.cnn.com

• 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

• We have to create more and more vegetarians, and help people to understand that it is not only the suffering of the animals (which is what made me vegetarian) but also the incredible harm to the environment, the tremendous amount of greenhouse gas created by the whole vast machinery of intensive animal farming.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, People, Suffering

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

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