If You Educate Women, Family Size Tends

I Always Loved Animals. And When I Was Ten, I Decided I Had To Go To Africa And Live With Animals And Write Books About Them.

They Used To Ask: "how Will This Decision That We Make Today Affect Our People In The Future?" Now We Make Decisions Based On: "how Does It Affect Me, Now? How Does It Affect The Next Shareholders Meeting, Three Months Ahead? How Does It Affect My Next Political Campaign?"

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, So Too Should We Recognize The Rights Of The Great Apes? Yes.

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.

Chimpanzees Are Incredibly Intelligent. They Can Learn More Than 400 Signs Of American Sign Language. They Have Memories For Spatial Distribution, Like Numbers On A Tv Screen, Way Better Than Ours. You Come Onto The Emotions: Happiness, Sadness, Fear, And Despair - All The Things For Which I Was Accused Of Being Anthropomorphic When I Ascribed Them To Chimpanzees.