Quotes About Humanity

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Armies are created to protect an established system, not people. In the future, an educated humanity will not stand for war.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Killing a man in defense of an idea is not defending an idea; it is killing a man.

All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.