Moshe Katsav Quotes

Just watching Israel bombarding Palestine and Palestine sending one or two little rockets over to Israel - it's just too sad for words.

Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

Nearly a million persons formerly dwelt in Venezuela, and it is no exaggeration to say that one out of four has succumbed either to the land, sword, hunger, plague, flight, or privation, all consequences of the war

The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty villages in Afghanistan didn't matter, even though it now seems that their numbers were greater. The people who will die in Iraq don't matter.

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

The life of men is painful.

The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories.

I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways.

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.