Best Humanitarian Words
160 Humanitarian quotes by 131 unique authors
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Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and…
— Billy Joel
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Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to…
— Jeff Koons
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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
— Daniel D. Palmer
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It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We…
— Leon Panetta
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Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and…
— Leon Panetta
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I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.
— Gregory Peck
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I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing…
— Jan Schakowsky
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It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.
— Cat Stevens
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He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.
— Voltaire
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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children…
— Marianne Williamson
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without…
— Wendell Willkie
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
— Andrew Young
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Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
— Howard Zinn
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Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all…
— Kage Baker
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I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous…
— Gregory Maguire
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You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or…
— Ronald Reagan
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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.
— Naguib Mahfouz
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(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If…
— Frank Sinatra
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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…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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The only person on this ship who gets paid for what they do is you, Alix. The rest of us live off our trust funds…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives.
— Paul Feyerabend
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Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian…
— Simone Elkeles
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one…
— Nikola Tesla
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I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.
— Janine di Giovanni
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I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all…
— Steven Pinker
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