Humanitarian Quotes - Page 5

• America's humanitarian concern for foreign victims of natural disasters or civil strife is being abused by President Bush when he extends legal status to foreigners in the US when there is no reason that they could not go home safely.

  Dan J. Stein

  Home, America, President

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• Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Country, President, Together

  K. M. Kostyal, Doris Kearns Goodwin (2009). “Abraham Lincoln's extraordinary era: the man and his times”, Natl Geographic Society

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• Man is by nature a pragmatic materialist, a mechanic, a lover of gadgets and gadgetry; and these are the qualities that characterize the "establishment" which regulates modern society: pragmatism, materialism, mechanization, and gadgetry. Woman, on the other hand, is a practical idealist, a humanitarian with a strong sense of noblesse oblige, an altruist rather than a capitalist.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Strong, Men, Hands

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 22: "Woman in the Aquarian Age", 1971.

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• The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

  William Howard Taft

  Sound, Dollars, Strategy

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• Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Cancer, Moving, Drug

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• I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for the money, the limousines or the girls? The answers are: no, no, yes yes yes!

  Pat Paulsen

  Girl, Country, Talking Politics

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• After the war in Afghanistan, Anna [Wintour, editor of Vogue], deciding to save the world one hair-roller at a time, thought the best way to help the women in this beleaguered country was to start a small beauty school in Kabul, where aid workers could get their roots done. Vanity Fair, edited by Bush-basher Graydon Carter, cheered her great humanitarian effort.

  Myrna Blyth

  Country, War, School

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

  Ann Coulter

  People, Strikes, Generous

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

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Socialist, Pacifist, Dies

  "Henry Salt, Humanitarian Reformer and Man of Letters". Book by George Hendrick, 1977.

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• At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.

  Sandra Bullock

  Grateful, Compassion, Generosity

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• Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Balance, Income

  Mahatma Gandhi (1954). “How to Serve the Cow”

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

  Tony Abbott

  Strong, Needs, Wells

  Australia politics live with Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• My brothers, family of our nation, secured Kuwait shall be, and secured you shall all be from every evil and long live Kuwait. And may you all live as her saviors, virtuous sons to her soil, and be her envoys. May she long live, may you long live adhering to her propitious principles, defending her kind and humanitarian lifespan, and her immaculate and tolerant Islamic faith.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Brother, Islamic, Son

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• [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. L. Peretz

  Heart, Ideas, Sponges

  Jewish Affairs (Johannesburg), p. 28, June 1952.

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• Increasingly gang violence and organized crime, together with climate change-driven natural disasters, are displacing more people as wars are fewer on the continent and political violence has decreased considerably, the NRC has decided to treat this as a humanitarian crisis.

  Jan Egeland

  Change, War, People

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• The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

  Benjamin Carson

  Doctors, Care, Medical

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more rested when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.

  Clive Thompson

  Character, World, Way

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• All these wars are similar in the way ideology is being used. It's the ideology of so-called humanitarian intervention. We don't want to do this, but we're doing this for the sake of the people who live there. This is, of course, a terrible sleight of hand because all sorts of people live there, and, by and large, they do it to help one faction and not the other.

  Tariq Ali

  War, Hands, People

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. January 2002.

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• 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].

  Angelina Jolie

  Risk, Kind, Aids

  Interview with Jenny Lange, www.unhcr.org. October 21, 2002.

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• We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.

  Tony Abbott

  Strong, Middle East, Problem

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• Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but the world doesn't want to do anything about it. That the world has packed them like sardines in a tiny piece of territory run by a fanatic Islamic group, run by a fanatic group like Hamas. Unless the world decides it wants to tackle this problem, that they want to deal with refugees there, prepare to absorb some of the refugees.

  Moshe Arens

  Running, Islamic, Israel

  Source: www.middleeasteye.net

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• At the moment people get on boats because they flee terror at home and believe the many years' long wait in UNHCR camps is not a valid option, especially if they have children in their care. After the Vietnam War, Australia took a larger humanitarian intake than at any other period in our history. The Australian community accepted that. They were told why we needed to do it, and why it was the only ethical decent policy that a wealthy advanced country should adopt.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Leadership, Country, Children

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

  Alvin Adams

  Different, Littles, Missions

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

  Mother Jones

  Hell

  "Mother Jones : The Most Dangerous Woman in America‎" by Elliott J. Gorn, (p. 3), 2002.

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• And I want to find a way to be of service to humanity. I think that's crucial. So want to be an artist and a servant, a humanitarian, and I want to play goofy weirdoes.

  Rainn Wilson

  Artist, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.pbs.org

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