Quotes about Humanity

God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

I'm not going to have the TV personality and be like, 'There's no bitterness. There's no ugliness.' There's bitterness. There's ugliness. There's pain. There's greed. There's malice, and there's hurt. That's all good stuff for any kind of art. I'm not necessarily feeding that side of myself, and I try not to encourage it too much.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

I guess if people couldn't profit from war I don't think there would be war.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mankind must put an end to war - or war will put an end to ma