The Most Ferocious Animal

Militarized police confronting peaceful protesters at Standing Rock, North Dakota, Nov. 20, 2016
photo credit: AJ+ on Twitter 

“The fiendlike skill we display in the invention of all manner of death-dealing engines, the vindictiveness with which we carry on our wars, and the misery and desolation that follow in their train, are enough of themselves to distinguish the white civilized man as the most ferocious animal on the face of the earth.”

- Herman Melville, Typee