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The noblest conquest man has ever made. — Georges Louis Leclerc · 1753Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity. — Georges Louis Leclerc · 1753