Assimilation and Persecution

We cannot get rid of persecution; if we feel at all we must persecute

something; the mere acts of feeding and growing are acts of persecution.

Our aim should be to persecute nothing but such things as are absolutely

incapable of resisting us. Man is the only animal that can remain on

friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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