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Top 20 Matthew Scully Quotes (2025 Update)

Matthew Scully Quote: “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, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.”

1. “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, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “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 nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.”

2. “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 nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “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 and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”

3. “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 and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “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 concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.”

4. “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 concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.”

5. “The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what’s left?”

6. “When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what’s left?”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “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 or calf, and that is one of God’s creatures you’re looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.”

7. “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 or calf, and that is one of God’s creatures you’re looking at, morally indistinguishable from your beloved Fluffy or Frisky.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions – about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul – forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.”

8. “Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions – about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul – forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “Factory farming isn’t just killing: It is a negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature... It confronts us with the animal equivalent of Abraham Lincoln’s condemnation of human slavery: ‘If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

9. “Factory farming isn’t just killing: It is a negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature... It confronts us with the animal equivalent of Abraham Lincoln’s condemnation of human slavery: ‘If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I think it is the more violent among us who are living out the fantasy, some delusion in which everything in nature is nothing and all is permitted.”

10. “Some readers will say that animals awaken fantasy, if not heresy, in those who attach moral significance to them. Yet often I think it is the more violent among us who are living out the fantasy, some delusion in which everything in nature is nothing and all is permitted.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals themselves.”

11. “As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not the animals themselves.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “The elephants we have seen taunted and tormented and slaughtered by the likes of Safari Club do not have time to wait while the world’s ethicists work out some centuries-long paradigm shift in moral thought.”

12. “The elephants we have seen taunted and tormented and slaughtered by the likes of Safari Club do not have time to wait while the world’s ethicists work out some centuries-long paradigm shift in moral thought.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “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 degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.”

13. “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 degrading both the creatures and ourselves, then we should not do it at all.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “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 example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it’s sad about the farms but that’s just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.”

14. “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 example, that they like their veal or hot dogs too much to ever give them up, and yeah it’s sad about the farms but that’s just the way it is, reason hears in that the voice of gluttony. We can say that what makes a human being human is precisely the ability to understand that the suffering of an animal is more important than the taste of a treat.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.”

15. “Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.”

16. “If animals are just commodities, then we are just consumers, with no greater good than material pleasure and no higher law than appetite.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “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 the sympathy that term suggests.”

17. “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 the sympathy that term suggests.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal – not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.”

18. “Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal – not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are only too happy to accept. In hostile hands, they become a pretext for doing nothing, for brushing off real and urgent moral duties in the care of animals.”

19. “Philosophical theories can in this way become a destructive venture, confusing matters with false choices and sterile power schemes the cruel are only too happy to accept. In hostile hands, they become a pretext for doing nothing, for brushing off real and urgent moral duties in the care of animals.”

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Matthew Scully Quote: “The fact that creatures cannot act morally toward us in no way diminishes our ability to act morally toward them.”

20. “The fact that creatures cannot act morally toward us in no way diminishes our ability to act morally toward them.”

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