Quotes About Humanitarian

I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.

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.

Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.

I simply feel that now we've so utterly perfected the walkie-talkie to the point where it has become the iPhone, maybe we could turn the great minds that brought us the Nintendo Wii, to, say, getting fresh water to the one billion people on our planet who don't have it.

The humanitarian ecosystem is diverse - not only is there a variety of traditional humanitarian actors, but the system should also embrace an increasing diversity of private sector actors.

Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.

C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medical supplies, sleeping bags and tents, all prepared to be air dropped in alongside soldiers and doctors to begin relief efforts.

If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.

We disagree with the way things are going in Venezuela that has brought thousands of refugees to Roraima.

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

Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

If, in the face of genocide, governments fear placing their soldiers at risk, he said, then don't send soldiers, send Boy Scouts - which is basically what the world did in the refugee camps [in Zaire].

I've always admired the work that Save the Children does to improve the lives of children and their families all over the world.

Thompson's group consists of remote viewers around the country. They offer their services to corporate clients but also to humanitarian projects and law enforcement investigations.

even found time to organize relief for war orphans.

Aid can only reach the victims of war by paying off the warlords and, sometimes, extending the war.

Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paediatrician and she was active in a small NGO for the child victims of war.