O. R. Melling Quotes

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

Cruelty is not a literary value.

People do horrible things.

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.

To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

Life is sacred? Who said so? God? Hey, if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.

I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

Is the capacity for cruelty inherent in all of us?

I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.

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.

Nothing will justify the killing of innocent people.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

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.

You never want to see people disrespect anything that stands for honor.