"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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Source : Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.320, Souvenir Press

Matthew Scully

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“There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words.”
“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. Thatâ€™s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, thatâ€™s why they write symphonies..”
“In time, perhaps, we will mark the memory of September 11th in stone and metal, something we can show children, as yet unborn, to help them understand what happened on this minute and on this day. But for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker weâ€™ll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.”
“Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.”
“The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you'd have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.”
“The racing driver needs to be fed a diet of other racing drivers.”

Source : Carroll Smith (1996). “Drive to Win: The Essential Guide to Race Driving”, Motorbooks International
“Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self.Â Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.”
“And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.”

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