Check this quote.
"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine—everybody drinks water."
Now check this essay: The Damned Human Race.
http://www.geocities.com/quotequeen81/essays/humanrace.html
To encapsulate the purpose of this work, I'll quote the following:
" 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. It is a trait that is not known to the higher animals. The cat plays with the frightened mouse; but she has this excuse, that she does not know that the mouse is suffering. The cat is moderate--unhumanly moderate: she only scares the mouse, she does not hurt it; she doesn't dig out its eyes, or tear off its skin, or drive splinters under its nails--man-fashion; when she is done playing with it she makes a sudden meal of it and puts it out of its trouble. Man is the Cruel Animal. He alone is of that distinction."
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