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Quotes About Aid

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.
~ Julius Nyerere
Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.
~ Paul Kagame
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Government aid impedes success and creates dependence, while entrepreneurs create success and independence.
~ Cal Thomas
There is no reward equal to that of doing the most good to the most people in the most need.
~ Evangeline Booth
He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
~ Homer
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others
~ Carlos Slim
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Be helpful - even if there's no immediate profit in it.
~ Susan Ward
Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone needs a helping hand, You just have to offer it.
~ Analiza Micheal
Help means give me a hand.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
As long as you are standing, give a hand to those who have fallen.
~ Persian Proverb
The ego is a jealous god, and it wants its interests served. It does not want to admit the reality of any dimensions except those within which it feels comfortable and can understand. It was meant to be an aid but it has been allowed to become a tyrant.
~ Jane Roberts
Yet, by not seeking help. . . .
~ Ed Warren
What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician, rather than the professor of metaphysics.
~ Edmund Burke
It is the aid of God! exclaimed the bishop, in a tone of pious confidence; and the whole multitude repeated after him, It is the aid of God.
~ Edward Gibbon
Side by side is most suitable for helping. We
~ Edward T. Welch
In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social conscience which dissuades one from harbouring unprofitable company in life, and I find that my two canons are a great aid and support for an analogous literary conscience which speaks up against consorting with unprofitable company in literature.
~ Albert Jay Nock
He had failed. He had awakened with the sudden knowledge of his master's peril. He had followed the urge of the call. And all at once he had realized that for some reason he cold not hope to lead his mistress to the man who so sorely needed her aid. Perplexed, heartsick, he had crawled back; helpless to do more.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
As some to church repair,Not for the doctrine, but the music there.These equal syllables alone require,Though oft the ear the open vowels tire;While expletives their feeble aid do join,And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.
~ Alexander Pope
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.
~ James Buchan
The war broke out, and I wanted to do something to aid my country in a time of crisis. I was too tall for the WACs and WAVES, but eventually joined the OSS and set out into the world looking for adventure.
~ Julia Child