Quotes About Humanity

You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

in old days when the struggle between good and evil was more bitter and open than it is now. That struggle goes on all around us all the time, like two armies fighting. And sometimes one of them seems to be winning and sometimes the other, but neither has ever triumphed altogether. No ever will for there is something of each in every man.

You can become grateful for all the small miracles in our lives that many humans on this planet do not share.

There's no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart

I'm afraid we're stuck with Kant and his"crooked timber of humanity, from which no straight thing was ever made." If we're going to build another world, it will be from this crooked timber and no other, so we'd better start learning the necessary carpentry.

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing

We all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing!