Farley Mowat

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destory; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be __he mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer _ which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.