Flies II

In 1926, [Oliver Wendell] Holmes again confided to Laski, "In cases of difference between oneself and another there is nothing to do except in unimportant matters to think ill of him and in important ones to kill him."  Shortly thereafter, Holmes wrote Laski, "We look at our fellow men with sympathy but nature looks at them as she looks at flies..."

--Edwin Black, "War Against The Weak: Eugenics And America's Campaign To Create A Master Race", p. 120