Ofir Drori quotes

The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
-- Ofir Drori

#Powerful #Littles #Poverty

Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants.
-- Ofir Drori

#Elephants #Ivory #Together

Our daily battles are to get traffickers behind bars, but the war for the fate of elephants is far away from the field and our sweat, it is a war of values vs greed, where more elephants can be killed by a vote than by any gun.
-- Ofir Drori

#War #Fate #Gun

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.