Quotes About Humanity

No more wars, no more bloodshed. Peace unto you. Shalom, salaam, forever.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

Every war carries within it the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed.

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war.

War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.