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Quotes About Compassion

War is not nice.
~ Barbara Bush
Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag.
~ T.R. Wallace
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
~ Mike Norton
I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.
~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
There comes a time for each of us when we realize the truth about the enemy. Which is that he is not an idea, or some faceless demon. He is a man. And every man is much like ourselves.
~ Brian Van Reet, Spoils
I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.
~ Sara Novi?, Girl at War
[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.
~ Sir Laurens van der Post
The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.
~ Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash
You must become your enemy to truly understand him.
~ Felix O. Hartmann, Dark Age
In a war the most dangerous thing is to understand the enemy. To understand is to forgive.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch
Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world
~ Munia Khan
There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?
~ Jay Woodman
Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew.
~ Aaron Burdett
From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.
~ Alephonsion Deng
humans without humanity, a war-torn world for eternity
~ Mouloud Benzadi
Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.
~ Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy
When the war's over, I'll be kind.
~ Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.
~ Erasmus, Against War
What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Why do we decorate the world with the ugliness of war when nature is so beautiful and kind?
~ Debasish Mridha
Just a little piece of peace can cultivate the land of Palestine, but inhuman human won't let it do that....
~ Munia Khan
In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.
~ Anthony Liccione
Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness.
~ Amit Kalantri