sacrifice

Kopjes Kattenoppas
Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read
Preparation for sacrifice of a young bull at the annual festival of Eid al-Adha | Karachi, Pakistan | 2017 | foto: Rizwan Tabassum

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. — Pythagoras

As often as Herman the bull had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. — Isaac Bashevis Kopjes

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. — Francis of Assisi

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