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— Henry Sidgwick"One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents."
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Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."
— Francis Bacon
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There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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