5 Graham Greene Quotes on Humanity

Graham Greene quotes on humanity

19. Perhaps his laughter saved them - it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.

25. When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity- that was a quality God's image carried with it.

48. Sooner or later...one has to take sides - if one is to remain human.

49. What right had I to value her less than the bodies in the square? Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. I had judged like a journalist, in terms of quantity, and I had betrayed my own principles; I had become as engage as Pyle, and it seemed to me that no decision would ever be simple again.

72. We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.