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> [“Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/tradition-with-all-its-happy-assumptions-and-necessary-evils-all-of/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

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## More by Matthew Scully

> [“at their disposal. So they assemble in protests to convey their objections. What’s wrong with that? A similar outpouring came recently from American Walter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/at-their-disposal-so-they-assemble-in-protests-to-convey-their/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/perhaps-that-is-part-of-the-animals-role-among-us-to-awaken-humility/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/the-truth-is-that-at-the-white-house-and-in-congress-you-are-as/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/animals-are-more-than-ever-a-test-of-our-character-of-mankind-s/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [“When a man’s love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/when-a-man-s-love-of-finery-clouds-his-moral-judgment-that-is-vanity/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [“In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would grow irate or bitter at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/in-any-case-i-just-cannot-imagine-attaching-so-much-importance-to-any/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/factory-farming-like-comparable-evils-throughout-history-depends-for/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [When we call something unfair or indecent or unconscionable or evil, when we speak of mercy and pity and compassion, those words have meaning,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/when-we-call-something-unfair-or-indecent-or-unconscionable-or-evil/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do something humanely,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/regarding-factory-farmed-animals-we-owe-them-a-merciful-death-and-we/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/an-environmentalist-can-oppose-factory-farming-because-it-s-reckless/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [“I think he overlook a phase: that empathy stage in our lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/i-think-he-overlook-a-phase-that-empathy-stage-in-our-lives-when-we/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [“The corporate farmer is the absent farmer, the stranger on his own property, too important to worry about little details like whether a pig…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/the-corporate-farmer-is-the-absent-farmer-the-stranger-on-his-own/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [“Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/reforms-will-come-as-all-great-reforms-have-always-come-in-ridding-us/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [“I know many people far more upright and conscientous than I am who disagree, who think nothing of it. I know that vegetarianism runs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/i-know-many-people-far-more-upright-and-conscientous-than-i-am-who/)

[Matthew Scully](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-scully/)

> [“If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-scully/if-animals-are-just-commodities-then-we-are-just-consumers-with-no/)

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