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“Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, “casualties may rise to a million.” With individual stories, the statistics…

— Neil Gaiman

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and…

— Antony Beevor

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

— Dalai Lama

We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of…

— Iris Chang

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it…

— Wendell Berry

Too much information is rather deadening.

— Willa Cather

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a…

— Albert Camus

“The quotation falsely attributed to Stalin, 'One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic,' gets the numbers wrong but captures a…

— Steven Pinker

One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.

— Nicholas Kristof

We run a danger of trying to say the casualties are less than other wars or more than expected. It's just everybody matters, every…

— George W. Bush

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

— Joseph Stalin