Quotes About Humanity

What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?

Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.

Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out new houses for reconstruction? Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Everyone is born equal; we will all die and shed our earthly glory. Riches, power and fame last for only a few short years. Why do we cling so desperately to these fleeting things? Why can't people who have more than enough for their own needs give the rest to their fellow human beings? Why should anyone have to have such a hard life for those few short years on earth?

There's a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start all over again!

I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.

No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies, and pregnant women - all marched to their death.

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while somewhere out there my dearest friends are dropping from exhaustion or being knocked to the ground.

I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has!

If God lets me live, I'll achieve more than Mother ever did, I'll make my voice heard, I'll go out into the world and work for mankind!

Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews.

We're so selfish that we talk about after the war and look forward to new clothes and shoes, when actually we should be saving every penny to help others when the war is over, to salvage whatever we can.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

This of all the misery in the world and be thankful that you are not sharing in it.

The spirit of man is great how puny are his deeds

Se possiamo salvare qualcuno tutto il resto è secondario.

Viviamo tutti con l'obiettivo di essere felici; le nostre vite sono diverse, eppure uguali.

hope the play will be a success and that the message which it contains will, through you, reach as many people as possible and awaken in them a sense of responsibility to humanity.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

I don't believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!

E un mare miracol c? n-am renunÈ›at la toate speranÈ›ele mele, c?ci ele par absurde È™i irealizabile. Cu toate astea, eu È›in la ele, fiindc? tot mai cred în bun?tatea interioar? a oamenilor.