Marvin Harris Quotes

It's wrong to kill.

I have said often, and I am sure of it, that the greatest destroyer of peace in the world today is abortion. If a mother can kill her own child, what is there to stop you and me from killing each other? The only one who has the right to take life is the The One who has created it.

Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

I think evil is very relative.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

The violence of killing in the name of pro-life makes a mockery of the pro-life cause.

… human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

As a society are we going to murder people to show that murder is wrong

Life has an absolute value and its preservation takes precedence over other commandments.

All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.

He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people than he has. What does that make you?" "Not a person," Nick murmured, not sounding particularly interested. "Surely you remember.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.