"When you start with a necessary evil, and……" — Matthew Scully

"When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?"

— Matthew Scully

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28 Quotes by Matthew Scully

Matthew Scully has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of…
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that…
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God…
Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to…
Go into the largest livestock operation, search out the darkest and tiniest stall or pen, single out the filthiest, most…
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a…
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are…
Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And when human beings…
Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless.…
An author describing the methods of intensive farming, or the excesses of sport hunting, or even the harsher uses of…
Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the…
The factory farm is . . . an obvious moral evil so sickening and horrendous. . . All this so…

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More Evil Quotes

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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