Quotes About Suffering

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind.

Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

Which would your men rather be, tired, or dead?

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

Every war is a war against children.

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.