“We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.” MenLongSleepAnimalPrinciplesReadyReturnEssentialsRemainsDefenseAwakeBeastRealisingDominantRecogniseCivilisationSavagerySounder Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)
“Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.” WorldHumansAnimalTerribleWeakInsultContradictionDominantPerversion Author:Muriel Barbery
“The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to humans, it is guaranteed by law. All animals are free, but in a system of humans total freedom is anarchy. Humans have thrived by letting a dominant authority regulate freedom. Liberty is a freedom that the authority has granted or has been persuaded to grant. For centuries, the state and the people have negotiated, peacefully and violently.” PeopleHumansHas BeensStatesLawDifferencesAnimalLibertyCenturyAuthorityUniqueGrantedGrantsAnarchyCrucialDominantRemindersFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyMagna Carta Author:Manu Joseph
“The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.” FeelsFacesFormMemoriesAnimalCitiesClassGoneTakenHatredAncientCuriousDominantJungleMammalsReptiles Book:The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere Source: The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere