All Matthew Scully Quotes
- 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,… Conflict
- 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… Advise
- Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul… Animal
- 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… Animal
- 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… Beloved
- 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… Animal
- 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… Accorded
- 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… All
- Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will… Broken
- 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… Abolition
- 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… All
- The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can have our accustomed… Accustomed
- The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life.… Affecting
- 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… All
- 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… Animal
- 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… Angry
- 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… Ability
- 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… Comfortable
- The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty. Cruelty
- When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left? Evil
- In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it. Books
- I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church. Admire
- Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of… Animal
- Factory farming, like comparable evils throughout history, depends for its existence upon concealment. It depends on people either not noticing or willfully averting their gaze. Averting
- The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among… Among