Animal Sacrifices

Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or sacrifices:

    Man is the Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized—the question involuntarily arises—to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)