The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity.
More Quotes from Thomas Mellon:
The normal condition of man is hard work, self-denial, acquisition and accumulation and as soon as his descendants are freed from the necessity of such exertion, they begin to degenerate sooner or later in both body and mind.Thomas Mellon
Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.
Thomas Mellon
It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
Thomas Mellon
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Faces QuotesNews conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
Sam Donaldson
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
Ray Stannard Baker
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson