Matthew Scully Quotes

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• When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts,…
• I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see…
• Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul…
• Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us…
• Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little lamb or pig…
• My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or…
• To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units, and accorded all…
• 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, without…
• Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will…
• An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in science writes with…
• Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and open…
• The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed…
• The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life.…
• 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 are…
• Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and…
• Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding…
• If we are defined by reason and morality, then reason and morality must define our choices, even when animals are concerned. When people say, for…
• Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks…
• The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.
• When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

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