Quotes About Humanity

War is a farmer's son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker's son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer.

We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry the hatred about the murder of 5 million people on to another World War.

I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.

I believe the United States should make the protection of Syrian civilians from war crimes and crimes against humanity a higher priority.

The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

War is good for absolutely nothing, because no matter how far and wide apart we may live, we're all the same under the skin. We all want to live, laugh and love.

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

War is at best barbarism.