Quotes About Humanity

Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

I wanted to go amongst gangbangers, to understand this war they were fighting amongst each other. I wanted to document it, [also] to show the human side of it.

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

Our hearts are with you and we are ready to provide any assistance at any time....This is a war between good and evil and between humanity and the bloodthirsty.

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'pro' one side or the other in a conflict.

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

I am totally against the war but violence is part of mankind and it's going to happen, but as musicians I think we've got to step up and say 'come on'.

Peace is the natural state of man, war the temporary repeal of reason and virtue.

And now that you are out? How does the world seem to you?" he says. "Mostly the same," I say. "People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.