Millions Quote by Edwin Way Teale

Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

— Deepak Chopra

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time,…

— John Woolman

“Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others.”

— José Luís Peixoto

“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

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

— Publilius Syrus

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

We live in a world of wars and wars alarms, of famines, of oppression. While there are many wonderful people in this world, you'll…

— Frederick Lenz

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain,…

— Ann Voskamp

War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.

— Eugene Richards

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

— Steve Southerland

“Tragedy is the common lot of man. 'So many people have lost children' I remind myself. pp 178-179 This tragedy is such an inextricable…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh