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"Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.""The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man -- whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them."
"People say to me so often, "Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful," and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside."
"Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries."
"The greatest danger to our future is apathy."
- Jane Goodall
"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. "
- Michelangelo
"If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius. "
- Michelangelo as quoted in Speeches & Presentations Unzipped (2007) by Lori Rozakis, p. 71
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
- Michelangelo
I live and love in God's peculiar light.
- Michelangelo
The abduction of Europa. 1632
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF THE WORLD, UNITE!"- Karl Marx
"Four spectres haunt the Poor — Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land."David Lloyd George - Speech in Reading, (1 January 1910)
" At eleven o’clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible War that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars."David Lloyd George - Speech in the House of Commons, (11 November 1918)
"What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in."David Lloyd George -Speech in Wolverhampton (24 November 1918)
"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
David Lloyd George Speech at the Paris Peace Conference (January 1919).
"The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them."
" The House of Lords is not the watchdog of the constitution; it is Mr Balfour’s poodle. It fetches and carries for him. It barks for him. It bites anyone that he sets it on to."David Lloyd George - Speech in the House of Commons (21 December 1908)
"This, Mr. Emmot, is a war Budget. It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness. "David Lloyd George - Budget speech (29 April 1909)
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known."Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Oliver Twist has asked for more!"Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain."Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"Melancholy streets, in a penitential garb of soot, steeped the souls of the people who were condemned to look at them out of windows, in dire despondency."Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers
"She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, herself, sir. You may have met with her `Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir.
