Days Quote by Ralph Fiennes

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

“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

There's a great satisfaction in humanitarian work.

— Govinda

I think we are challenged in how we define humanitarian action today and how we relate to long-term needs. We are also confronted with…

— Peter Maurer

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

— Jesse Jackson

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

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.

— Alvin Adams

Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you're demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

— Bret Stephens

“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

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the…

— Emmanuelle Beart

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which…

— James Russell Lowell

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

— Mother Jones