“The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.” IfsMenHumansWellsPurposeHuman BeingsHalfEnemyFeetLandFaultsKillingConvincedPeculiarUniformsBulletsCostumesDutchEnslavementProximityCallousnessCharades Author:Robert Charles Wilson
“No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.” NeedsHumansDesireHuman BeingsEnemyFlawsSincerePhilanthropyOppressedDoing GoodBenevolenceOppressors Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.” HumansWarOpportunityHuman BeingsCommonEnemyPovertyIgnoranceDependsDiseaseCreatingWeaponsAbsenceNuclearNuclear WeaponsWorth LivingLife Worth LivingTrue PeaceCommon Enemy Author:Barack Obama
“Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves.” MenHumansDoeFightingEvilHuman BeingsEnemyViolenceNon Violence Book:The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.” HumansMatterSpiritForceHuman BeingsEnemyMaterialsSlaveCompareBeast Author:Simon Bolivar
“Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that you don't gather very much by making enemies out of people and not recognizing their humanity. Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.” PeopleHumansCertainHumanityHuman BeingsEnemyNonviolenceRecognizing Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“George W.Bush can go and kill thousands of Iraqis every day. By making people believe they are the enemy, and not human beings any more. If evil has an address, a nationality, you can exterminate all of them. This is fascism.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansEvilHuman BeingsEnemyAddressesFascismNationality Author:Marjane Satrapi