Quotes About Humanity

I observed a thousand acts of courage, compassion and love [as a POW] and I will always treasure that memory above all others.

The Forty Rules of Love is a wise, joyous page-turner... and one that speaks urgently to our war-ravaged times.

It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

The more I've traveled to war zones, the more I'm convinced that the impact and the effects are way beyond anything we can even begin to imagine.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.

I thought of all that worked dark pits Of war, and died Digging the rock where Death reputes Peace lies indeed.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom.

I believe all war to be wholly wrong.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

War makes its own morals.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

Not till the end of the war will there be any time for art or love or magic again. Perhaps never again.

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

In times of war, don't touch the guns; stay as a human! Always refuse to be a killer!