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Quotes About Humanity

Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.
~ Marty Rubin
The use of rape and enslavement as weapons of war MUST END!
~ Widad Akreyi
Humans without humanity, war_torn world for eternity
~ Mouloud Benzadi
He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.
~ David Jones, In Parenthesis
What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.
~ Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women
My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries.
~ Michael Grant, Front Lines
Either war is obsolete or men are.
~ Buckminster Fuller
What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
~ Brendan Behan
There is no such thing as inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
~ Bonar Law
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities.
~ John Foster Dulles
Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.
~ Robert Ardrey
What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.
~ William Ellery Channing
And this I hate - not men nor flag nor race But only War with its wild grinning face.
~ Joseph Dana Miler
The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
~ Jonathan Winters
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
~ Seamus Heaney
War is terrible. There is nothing romantic about war.
~ Martin McGuinness
Without love, the world itself would not survive.
~ Lope de Vega
We are each other's magnitude and bond.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Every wedding must be an occasion of joy that human beings can do such great things, that they have been given such immense freedom and power to take the helm in their life's journey.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.
~ Dick Gregory
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~ Mother Teresa
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
~ Rumi
I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may have a bright side...
~ Ned Kelly