Quotes About Humanitarian

Come può un'organizzazzione che si occupa delle vittime di guerra andarsene via, quando la guerra si fa più vicina e più violenta? E cosa diciamo al nostro staff e ai nosti pazienti: è stato bello, ma in fondo era un gioco, arrivederci e grazie, e scusate il disturbo?

I have sympathy for the people in Syria, and I do think there should be a worldwide response, but we should act cautiously.

Reach Out WorldWide does great work. It's a small organization that does great work, and I'm gonna make sure that keeps going on.

I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.

Herb Kent is one of the great DJs of all time, and one of the great human beings of all time.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood.

The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on the wisdom of redistributing wealth at the point of a gun.

Beginning in the 17th century, technological advances in publishing and transportation created a Republic of Letters and a Reading Revolution in which the seeds of the Humanitarian Revolution took root (chapter 4). More people read books, including fiction that led them to inhabit the minds of other people, and satire that led them to question their society's norms.

The ordering of events is in the right direction: technological advances in publishing, the mass production of books, the expansion of literacy, and the popularity of the novel all preceded the major humanitarian reforms of the 18th century.

Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.

The American Idea extends worldwide—not only because ours are universal, humanitarian values, but also because of a global system, an architecture, that derives from these same values of democracy, rights, and freedom, an architecture established by Americans and by other democracies.

What the hell is happening to the world when those who were at the origin of... international humanitarian law start questioning in public debates whether it has any relevance or should be respected?

Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

I'm hoping that maybe I can be part of a disaster relief effort, something that's real life. That's kind of what I do anytime I stop working: 'OK, what's something that you've really wanted to do?'

I used to work with a relief group that took care of the people in the dump. We took them food and water and medicine and built homes and took them to church services, whatever was needed.

The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.

The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.

It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

We create refugees, and then our Democratic Party, together with the Republicans, who are also a party to this, are criminalizing them and sending them back, inhumanely.

The children and families seeking asylum at our border deserve our immediate attention and humanitarian aid.

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

As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.