Quote#Death
Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst…
Quote byAmos Bronson Alcott · 1799–1888
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Journal entry (February 5, 1839) in Odell Shepard (ed.) The Journals of Bronson Alcott, vol. 1 (Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1938) p. 115.
English (original)
Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. Quartered, disembowelled creatures on suspended hooks plead with me. I feel myself dispossessed of the divinity.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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