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Quotations about cruelty | |
People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel. Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. ... almost everywhere in the Soviet Union peasants were forced to join the collective farms; they were simply driven into them like cattle. The local authorities used the cruelest methods, fulfilling quotas set by the central government. Many peasants who had received land as a result of the October revolution had grown stronger, that is, they had improved their economic status; they had become what in the Soviet Union was called "middle peasants." They did not want to give up what they had earned by honest labor. |
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