Humanitarian Quotes

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

— Mother Jones

“Military is people-approved genocide.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Military is legal terrorism.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Poverty is not natural; it is man-made

— Nelson Mandela

“My flag is world flag.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“World, my valentine.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Passport is just a glorified bus pass.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Sight up - Might up - Light up!”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.”

— Agatha Christie

“Light up your heart and the world will be lit.”

— Abhijit Naskar

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

— William Faulkner

“I don't follow humanism, humanism follows me.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.

— Eric Greitens

The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting.

— Roger Moore

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

— Howard Zinn

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.

— Peter Maurer

“Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race – it is beyond religion – it is…

— Abhijit Naskar

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war…

— Navi Pillay

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the…

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Woody Harrelson

“The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world's needs are vast…

— Shannon L. Alder

Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.

— Peter Maurer

“Wake up your conscience and hold it high as a beacon, so that the whole world can bask in its sanctimonious kernel…

— Abhijit Naskar

“To treat disease you need medical license, To treat injustice being human is enough. To fly a plane you need pilot's license,…

— Abhijit Naskar

At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education…

— Helene D. Gayle

I have tried to bring about better communication between people. I believe that humanitarian photography is like economics. Economy is a kind…

— Sebastiao Salgado

“O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start…

— Abhijit Naskar

The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have…

— Bruce Cockburn

I can see the gravity of this pandemic as my parents are doctors. This is not only a health crisis and we…

— Pranitha Subhash

“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life…

— Eve Curie Labouisse

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is…

— Roger Wicker

Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make…

— Manny Sanguillen

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…

— Moshe Arens

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…

— Tariq Ali

“Sonnets to Write Before I Sleep (The Sonnet) When I finished my first 1000 sonnets, I felt, now I shall take it…

— Abhijit Naskar

I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a…

— Vita Sackville-West

“We even save a few lives, but only a fraction of the lives that need to be saved. Soon, we will leave…

— Pamela Grim

“Everybody is a terrorist, till you see the reformist (The Sonnet) Everybody is a president, till you see the first servant. Everybody…

— Abhijit Naskar

In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

“Sonnet Earthistan Earthistan is not a place, Earthistan is a people, People who've forgotten borders, Who ain't no sectarian sheeple. Earthistan is…

— Abhijit Naskar