“Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable… — Matthew Scully Happiness Copy Share Image
“Wildlife, we are constantly told, would run loose across our towns and cities were it not for the sport hunters to control… — Matthew Scully Animals Copy Share Image
“It is true, as we are often reminded, that kindness to animals is among the humbler duties of human charity--though for just… — Matthew Scully Animals Copy Share Image
Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger… — Matthew Scully About Copy Share Image
“Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I… — Matthew Scully Animals Copy Share Image
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully Advise Copy Share Image
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it. — Matthew Scully About Copy Share Image
I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church. — Matthew Scully Admire Copy Share Image
Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little… — Matthew Scully Beloved Copy Share Image
“lives when we may begin to see even the commonest animals on their own terms, fellow creatures with their own needs to… — Matthew Scully Animals Copy Share Image
“Such terrifying powers we possess, but what a sorry lot of gods some men are. And the worst of it is not… — Matthew Scully God Copy Share Image
Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes. — Matthew Scully Advise Copy Share Image
Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often,… — Matthew Scully Crank Copy Share Image
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
“Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind’s capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful… — Matthew Scully Animals Copy Share Image
If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When… — Matthew Scully Ability Copy Share Image
“The elephants we have seen taunted and tormented and slaughtered by the likes of Safari Club do not have time to wait… — Matthew Scully Paradigm shift Copy Share Image
“Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are… — Matthew Scully Philosophy Copy Share Image
Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope… — Matthew Scully Animal Copy Share Image
“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not… — Matthew Scully Animals Copy Share Image
We live in an age when you can prowl the streets of major cities and find human beings offering themselves in store… — Matthew Scully Age Copy Share Image
'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.' — Matthew Scully Agriculture Copy Share Image
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? — Matthew Scully Evil Copy Share Image
“Though reason must guide us in laying down standards and laws regarding animals, and in examining the arguments of those who reject… — Matthew Scully Animals Copy Share Image
