One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
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The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.
Even one death is horrible.
One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.
One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
Each murder is one too many.
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