Humanitarianism Quote by H. L. Mencken

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

— Ron Paul

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

— Henry Spira

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

— Irving Babbitt

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

— Jesse Jackson

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

— Bessie Head

The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only…

— Peter Maurer

The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

— Eric Greitens

Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity.…

— Peter Maurer

In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of…

— Tariq Ali

“Genocide is only possible when dehumanization happens on a massive scale, and the perfect tool for this job is propaganda: it keys right into…

— David Eagleman

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Today humanitarianism is in search of an identity, especially after the war in Iraq. In a perfect world, humanitarianism would not exist. People wouldn't…

— Marc Vachon