Quotes About Humanity

Our mission is to report these horrors of war with accuracy and without prejudice.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

All wars are waged against children

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

What's so civil about war anyway?

Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions.

The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

the better angels of our nature

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

We resist Joy on this planet more than we resist war.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.

There will be no veterans of World War III.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

We are all victims of war, and we all count.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.