Quotes About Humanity

If we do not abolish war on this earth, then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.

Every war is a war against children.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I'm not narrating a particular story. I'm just addressing experiences.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.

I never thought that my creation, would allow brothers to kill brothers. (after seeing his invention being used in war, The Airplane) Alberto Santos-Dumont

Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Slavery can never be abolished.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.