Humanitarian Quotes

Hamas is a humanitarian organization.

Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.

Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.

The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be.

I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

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

Humanitarian assistance and exchanges are still allowed, even under the sanctions regime on North Korea. Therefore, in parallel with sanctions and pressure, we must also employ humanitarian assistance. The meeting of separated families is also a measure to ensure human rights.

Our national leaders tend to try to protect the national interest as they see it. They may screw up in that, but they at least see that as their role. In contrast, where issues of our national values are involved, which covers pretty much any humanitarian issue, they pretty much drop the ball.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.

The natural economic, humanitarian and social integration, do not require any armed forces.

If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, “He’s avoiding it.” If I do talk about it, it becomes, “Oh, he’s proselytizing.”

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.

For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it.

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

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

I think Aleppo is a disaster, humanitarian-wise.

A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.

We have very close humanitarian contacts [with China], wide-ranging youth exchanges, educational and regional contacts, and all of them continue to develop.

I don't want to beat people over the head with my political views. It's more about the humanitarian aspect of it.

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.

Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.

There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

Peter Norman is a humanitarian, and I say "is" because in my life, Peter Norman is never deceased. He's always going to live with me.

The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that [ eastern part] area [in Aleppo], and at the same time for the humanitarian convoys and help to go through those gates inside that part of Aleppo, but the terrorists publicly refused any solution, so they wanted to keep the situation as it is.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission.

I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.