John Trudell " Religious vs Spiritual" Perception of Reality

...if the torturers and bureacrats of the dungeons and the camps are able to treat their victims like animals destined for the slaughterhouse, with whom they themselves, the well-nourished criminals, have nothing in common, it is because the victims have indeed become such animals. What had to be done for this to happen has indeed been done. That some nevertheless remained human beings, and testify to that effect, is a confirmed fact. But this is always achieved precisely through enormous effort.

-Alain Badiou