The part that always shocked me was the inter-community violence among the chimps: the patrols and the vicious attacks on strangers that lead to death. It's an unfortunate parallel to human behavior - they have a dark side just as we do. We have less excuse, because we can deliberate, so I believe only we are capable of true calculated evil. Jane Goodall
Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.
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Laurell K. Hamilton
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every...
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Philip Pullman
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
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Chris Heimerdinger
Well, that's an evil smile...
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James Patterson
You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.
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Jim Butcher
More Quotes By Jane Goodall
A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.
The least I can do is speak out for the hundreds of chimpanzees who, right now, sit hunched, miserable and without hope, staring out with dead eyes from their metal prisons. They cannot speak for themselves.
I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthusiasm that can be kindled among young people seems without limit, and he human spirit is indomitable. But if we want life, we will have to stop depending on someone...
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights,...
