In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you. (Olaf Stapledon)

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

Olaf Stapledon
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