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Human cruelty

People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that’s a great injustice and insult to to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that’s all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it. These Turks took a pleasure in torturing children, too; cutting the unborn child from the mother’s womb, and tossing babies up in the air and catching them on the points of their bayonets before their mothers’ eyes. Doing it before the mothers’ eyes was what gave zest to the amusement.

The Brothers Karamazov