Humane Quotes

“Korea was the most brutal war of the twentieth century, measured by the intensity of violence and per capita civilian deaths. In three years, four million died, and half of them were civilians—a higher proportion of the population than in any modern war, including World War II and the Vietnam conflict. As Korea showed, World War II did not end the tradition of inhumane war, especially against “savages.” The winter of 1950 was a bleak parody of what was supposed to be a new age of peace.”
― Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War

“Hadji Murat, Tolstoy’s posthumous novella recounting the difficulties of maintaining imperial control in the face of Muslim terrorism, could not seem prophetic to Americans for decades. For a long time, his warnings about making war humane were inapplicable as”
― Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War