Quotes about Humanity
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.
— Franklin Pierce
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.
— Mark Twain
If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
— Helen Keller
The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.
— John F. Kennedy
We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
— Martin Luther King III
Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
— Victor Hugo
The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
— Alfred Nobel
the better angels of our nature
— Abraham Lincoln
I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war.
— Pope John Paul II
War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.
— John F. Kennedy