Quotes About Suffering

Our losses... have reached and intolerable level.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

All wars are waged against children

I, too, saw God through mud

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

This war is really the greatest insanity in which white races have ever been engaged.

Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

We are all victims of war, and we all count.

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

The war has ruined us for everything.

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

On the journey towards the beloved, you live by dying at every step

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.