Colonial times Quote by Arundhati Roy

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

I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral…

— Emma Thompson

The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of…

— Judith Butler

Any big organization can be subverted by governments or multinational special interests. They have the resources to cast doubt and fear over any group…

— Arlo Guthrie

Every country, every donation is a different case, and there are many cases where NGOs are getting support from foreign countries for good purposes.

— Ayelet Shaked

Very often, development agencies or even some of the humanitarian actors choose the... more comfortable type of work, where it is safe, while the…

— Peter Maurer

One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have new products.…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Sometimes I wonder whether anything is learned in conservation, or whether the big NGOs are for ever destined to follow a circular track, endlessly…

— George Monbiot

“As I like to put it, we have hit pay dirt. The effort to cure the resource curse is a good example of what…

— George Soros

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

— Ron Paul

The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in…

— Ban Ki-moon

No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.

— Irwin Redlener