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Quotes About Humanity

The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.
~ Amy Harmon, From Sand and Ash
With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.
~ Henry V. O'Neil, CHOP Line
It is time to recognize the past and ongoing genocides to prevent new ones. Together we can build a better world!
~ Widad Akreyi
Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world
~ Munia Khan
There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?
~ Jay Woodman
Humans and their wars. You call me monster, , but look what you've gone and done to one another! Good riddance to you now and, if I'm lucky, forever. Have your war. I'll have my radish stew.
~ Aaron Burdett
And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
~ Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth
From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal.
~ Alephonsion Deng
humans without humanity, a war-torn world for eternity
~ Mouloud Benzadi
Love is not a justification for war. Anyone who uses it as such doesn't know squat about being human.
~ Cecily White, Conspiracy Boy
When the war's over, I'll be kind.
~ Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians.
~ John Hersey
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.
~ Erasmus, Against War
How could a society produce such masters and such monsters?
~ Meg Wiviott, Paper Hearts
He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
~ Dave Malloy
What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Where's the everlasting peace? Is there even such a thing? Or do we war like alien races war, eternally, against ourselves?
~ Hugh Howey, Beacon 23
What is left of us? … No countries, no cultures, no wars but still no peace. What's at our core, then? What's still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?
~ Isaac Marion
Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.
~ Amit Kalantri
A poor man in this world can be done to death in two main ways, by the absolute indifference of his fellows in peacetime or by their homicidal mania when there's a war.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?
~ Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
If international law is, in some ways, at the vanishing point of law, the law of war is, perhaps even more conspicuously, at the vanishing point of international law.
~ Hersch Lauterpacht
Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
~ Mouloud Benzadi