“Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Man was made to Mourn.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Man was Made to Mourn (1786)
“I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.”
— Primo Levi, book If This Is a Man
Source: If This Is a Man / The Truce
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Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 7)
Notes from Underground (1864)
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