Help people Quote by Howard Zinn Download Open image “Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.” — Howard Zinn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Help people Humanitarian People War
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many of the wars we see around the world start as domestic conflicts that are fueled by external forces and powers. My view is… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great. — Peter Maurer Copy Share Image
Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love. — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the new city of Washington, wrote to Thomas Jefferson: I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a woman. It was assumed that men, as a matter of biological nature, would sin, but woman must not surrender. As one male author said: “If you do, you will be left in silent sadness to bewail your credulity, imbecility, duplicity, and premature prostitution.” A woman wrote that females would get… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“Middle-class Americans might be invited to join a new elite by attacks against the corruption of the established rich. The New Yorker Cadwallader Colden, in his Address to the Freeholders in 1747, attacked the wealthy as tax dodgers unconcerned with the welfare of others (although he himself was wealthy) and spoke for the honesty and dependability of “the midling rank… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I want to help people struggling with whatever it is they're going through. — Santan Dave Copy Share Image
We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
If you ask why I do what I do - I want to make a difference. I don't just want to maintain the status… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
“Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is… — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall the beloved this way is the glory… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“We Will Let You Down: If We’re Close Enough to Help, We’re Close Enough to Hurt Bob Nobody wants to be the church that hurts people. But at some point, every church ends up doing just that. Early in our church life we came to the painful realization that as much as we were determined to be a church that… — J.R. Briggs Copy Share
You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
