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Jane Goodall (3 Apr 1934 - ) English primatologist, anthropologist and ethnologist who spent 45 years studying chimpanzee social behaviour. She founded the Jane Goodall Institute. Short biography of Jane Goodall >>

Jane Goodall - “Cruelty is the worst of human sins”

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“Cruelty is the worst of human sins. …[By] deliberately inflicting suffering … we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.”

— Jane Goodall

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Jane Goodall has written many books and articles, has often been interviewed for print and TV, and has given numerous lectures. This results from her commitment to make the world more aware of the intelligence of chimpanzees, and the plight of the chimpanzee in their disappearing rain forests. She has travelled widely, lecturing and raising funds for the Jane Goodall Institute so it can continue its efforts to assist wild and rescued chimpanzees.

With such a multitude of places that Jane Goodall has written or spoken, tracking down a given quote is daunting. The full quote as originally found is:

The opening statement that “Cruelty is the worst of human sins,” has no doubt been uttered often by Goodall when expressing concern for animal welfare. These seven words appear in a book review by Steve Dale, for the Chicago Tribune in 1994. He reviewed a book coauthored by historian Dale Peterson with Jane Goodall, Visions of Caliban, (1993). Dale interviewed Goodall by telephone at her home in England. After that comment on cruelty, she continued,

The article opened with these remarks by Goodall:

The book gives various chilling examples of cruelty to apes, these close-to-human creatures, whether participants in a circus, biomedical laboratory animals, housed in poor conditions at zoos, or captive in the illicit international trade.

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