Humanitarian Quotes - Page 2

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.

The natural economic, humanitarian and social integration, do not require any armed forces.

If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, “He’s avoiding it.” If I do talk about it, it becomes, “Oh, he’s proselytizing.”

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

Humanitarianism is rude.

For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.

President-elect [Donald] Trump has promised a safe zone, a humanitarian zone [in Syria].

There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me.

A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.