Quotes About Aid

Can I help you?" Katie asks as she and Libby approach him.

We were taught not to offer or invite aid, because, like it or not, helping is a messy, confused proposition; sometimes you get it right and sometimes you get it wrong, and sometimes you have no choice but to trust that the man holding your tire iron, cussing at your old lug nuts, is a deeply kind human after all.

I try to assist team-mates.

An assist is like a goal for me.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

Yeah, I get a lot of donations. It's a lot. I'm getting money all the time.

You cannot develop a country on donations.

I've always dreamed of going on a mission. You get a chance to go out and help other people.

The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.

In 2008/9 26,000 people in the U.K. relied on emergency food aid from a foodbank; which was 26,000 too many.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.

God likes help when helping people.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Women, men, and children have fundamental rights to humanitarian assistance and protection. Yet far too many states block aid and attack their own citizens, and too many others - including some of the world's wealthiest countries - turn their back on those fleeing conflict and violence.

Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy.

was always human and never pleasant and often misleading. Aid workers, when handing out food to starving people, quickly learn that the people fighting for it at the front are the people who need it least. It's the people sitting quietly at the back, too weak to fight, who need it the most. And so too with tragedy. The people who don't insist on their sorrow can often be the ones who feel it most strongly.

These are dangerous times and dangerous people. We need all the help we can get.

How can I help?

Men are more helped by sympathy than by service.

I have a radical thought," Meryl said. "Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don't we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive.

Nobody wants to be sold, but everyone wants to be helped.

This program would clearly allow for the forgiveness of loans,