Affording Quote by Isabel Paterson

The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by…

— Isabel Paterson

“The humanitarian, like the missionary, is often an irreducible enemy of the people he seeks to befriend, because he has not imagination enough to…

— George Santayana

The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by…

— Isabel Paterson

“A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“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

On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he…

— Noam Chomsky

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

In the operative opinion of the world, he who is already fully provided with what is necessary for him, that man shall have more;while…

— Herman Melville

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

— Lucian

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

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

— Irving Babbitt

Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him,…

— Thomas Carlyle