Quotes About Humanity

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.

In any war, people will pay the price.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

In nuclear war, all men are cremated equal.

When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books.

I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day." - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.

If you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That's the natural thing.

You cannot talk about winning the war as long as there's killing and destruction on daily basis.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.

There's no war that will end all wars.

It is not right to exult over slain men.

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans, and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.