"Animals are more than ever a test of……" — Matthew Scully
"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 called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us."
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28 Quotes by Matthew Scully
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When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of…
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I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that…
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Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God…
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Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to…
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Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most…
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My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a…
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To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are…
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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…
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Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless.…
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An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of…
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Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the…
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The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so…
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