Quotes About Aid

Don't worry about it. I'll get you in.

The average European, whether male or female, is extremely sensitive, always ready to shoulder the blame for the poverty of Africa or Asia, to sorrow over the world's problems, to assume responsibility for them, always ready to ask what Europeans can do for the South rather than asking what the South could do for itself.

The bones meant that I had broken faith with the vampires and was no longer under their protection—and anyone offering me aid of any kind was likely to find themselves on the wrong side of the vampires as well.

A Tinker's Debt is Always Paid: Once for a simple trade. Twice for freely given aid. Thrice for any insult made.

You know, I could have carried you.

A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made.

I heard you were in sime trouble," I said nonchalantly. "So I thought I'd come and help.

A tinker's debt is always paid: Once for any simple trade. Twice for freely-given aid. Thrice for any insult made." The

Magic is not the solution to every problem, but it sure helps in eleven out of ten cases.

Or consider child beggars in the developing world. The sight of an emaciated child is shocking to a well-fed Westerner, and it's hard for a good person to resist helping out. And yet the act of doing so ends up supporting criminal organizations that enslave and often maim tens of thousands of children. By giving, you make the world worse. Actions that appear to help individuals in the short term can have terrible consequences for many more.

The aid agencies are not run by fools. they are full of intelligent people severely constrained by what public opinion permits.

The key obstacle to reforming aid is public opinion.. Public opinion drives them into the "I care" photo opportunities that dominate aid.

For every $135 of public money spent on an asylum-seeker in Europe, just $1 is spent on a refugee in the developing world.

Deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

There is no love which does not become help.

Mason was responsible for giving Congress the power to "declare"—not "make"—war, which he saw as a way of "facilitating peace," and supplied the phrase about giving the country's enemies "aid and comfort" in the constitutional definition of treason.

All part of the service.

The Ethiopian replied, "How can I, unless someone guides

“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.

Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.

Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.