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After the war, aid

— Greek Proverb

“What we call aid money serves only to strengthen the structures that generate poverty. Aid money never reaches those victims who, having lost their…

— Majid Rahnema

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

— Paul Kagame

I guess that when you invade a nation of warlords, you end up having to deal with warlords.

— Peter Dale Scott

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

— Barack Obama

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

War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.

— Frederic C. Howe

Trade is the all-but-forgotten weapon in the battle against poverty, but it can provide more help to the poor than aid can.

— Richard N. Haass

“Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provide concrete help. . . . Donor…

— Leymah Gbowee

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

— Paul Kagame

There is no denying that the interventionist wars in Iraq and Libya that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering actually increased human…

— Tulsi Gabbard

Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient…

— Paul Kagame