Dec 28, 2012
We have to make up our minds to acknowledge—however painful this acknowledgement is—that man is, of all creatures, the only one who, through his violence, his barbarism and his sadism, can really show himself to be inhuman to the point of heinousness, precisely because he also possesses the possibility of being human. Man is the only animal who tortures and knows how to refine cruelty. Inhumanity is the other side of our coin, which proudly bears the ideal of the dignity and the greatness of man.
Dominique Janicaud, “On the Human Condition”