Aid Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image ““[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.”” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aid Business Colonialism Enterprise Foreign aid International relations International-politics Lies
“The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things, and we… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The aid industry has saved millions of lives, but it is complicated (and maybe this is a necessary evil) by a set of feelings… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“Create enterprise, live on your own terms, and you’ll find the key to happiness.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“offering silent tribute to the unwillingness of any bureaucracy to go out of business. By” — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“I have found luxury in leadership, it starts with investment.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“I believe the free enterprise system is not an economic alternative. It's a moral imperative.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.” — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really.... — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
Taiwan gives a lot of foreign aid to Costa Rica, so it looks like they are basically buying the right to fish, even though… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students… — Konrad Bloch Copy Share Image
When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course of history, the United States is usually on… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
“And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Pell grants are the foundation of Federal student aid. As someone who attended college with the help of Pell grants and as chairman of… — Ric Keller Copy Share Image
Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their… — Nick Ferguson Copy Share Image
