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Animals Quotes by Matthew Scully
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less…
- I have no doubt that President George W. Bush - a man, in my experience, of extremely kind and generous instincts, and back in Austin…
More Animals Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. — Mary Kay Ash
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman