Quotes About Humanitarian

For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused.

Sanders was hanged," said Miss Marple crisply. "And a good job too. I have never regretted my part in bringing that man to justice. I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.

I aspire to be like Paul Newman. He was a man's man, a lady's man, and the epitome of a philanthropist.

European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.

I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff.

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

The fight against global warming is a humanitarian issue - how the planet can be preserved - and it is also an issue of considerable economic importance, of what we call green growth.

Hoping to garner the support of the American people, proponents of regime-change wars routinely cite humanitarian concerns to justify military intervention in foreign countries. But here is the reality: As a direct result of our intervention in Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, human suffering increased dramatically.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop for a couple of days to immunise the kids.' It has been done.

Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa.

Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.

There is a humanitarian ethos in Israelite penal law, which is acknowledged by all who have compared it with contemporary ancient Near Eastern collections of law."29

I talk all the time about the eight-year-old me and all the eight-year-olds who are living in their camps.

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.

I am a charity campaigner.

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.

Surely no nation in the history of the world had ever done so much to help civilians in other nations as America did under Hoover's guidance.

Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

English persons, therefore, of humanitarian and reformist disposition constantly went out to the Balkan Peninsula to see who was in fact ill-treating whom, and, being by the very nature of their perfectionist faith unable to accept the horrid hypothesis that everybody was ill-treating everybody else, all came back with a pet Balkan people established in their hearts as suffering and innocent, eternally the massacree and never the massacrer.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

Let us wage a moral and political war against war itself, so that we can cut military spending and use that money for human needs.

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.