Quotes About Humanity

Industry of war is the industry of shame

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

In a war, the first casualty is human dignity.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

The easiest way to forget about the people who are dying in wars right now is to close our eyes and ears! And this is also the ugliest and the vilest way!

The casualty of war is our disappearing humanity.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.

No war has ever won in the history, because people died in every single war! Where there are deaths, there is no victory!

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?