Book: The choice of the gods

Although he [Jason] really doubt that the person was really ever true owner of the Land. It would be better to say that People captured her, and taking away from other creatures, who had her same rights, but not possessed of intelligence, ability or enough power to defend these rights. People were rather pushy, arrogant occupier and not the owner, the owner. He won the power of the mind, which can be no less disgusting than the strength of muscle, creating your own rules, setting their own goals, establishing their own values and completely ignoring everything else that was living on Earth.