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Matthew Scully has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot…
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Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity…
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Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings,…
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Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most forlorn little…
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My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or…
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To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are production units,…
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Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings cannot do…
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Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too…
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An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of animals in…
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Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of…
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The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so we can…
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him,…
— Nadia Boulanger
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There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists…
— George Santayana
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We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all…
— Mother Teresa
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The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and…
— Rudolph Rummel
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Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.
— Ayn Rand
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Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment,…
— Unknown Author
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But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to…
— Ayn Rand
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The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of…
— Unknown Author
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As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends…
— George W. Bush
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But I can tell you what I believe: When tens of thousands of innocent souls have perished in Darfur-when 11 million children…
— John F. Kerry
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