Quotes About Humanity

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

Some day I'd like to cover a war in a country as ugly as war itself.

War is not won by victory.

In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

No one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins.

Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.

All pity choked with custom of fell deeds.

Humanity are not individuals; we are collective. And if we have difference, we have wars all the time. We have crisis. We need to open our mind. This is the only solution we have.

If war was hell and only hell and there were no other colors in the palate I don't think people would continue to make war.

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing!

The atomic bombs will surely shorten the war, and let us hope that they will effectively end war as a possibility in human affairs.