True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which is deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being