Humanitarianism Quote by Thomas Cushman Download Open image ““[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.”” — Thomas Cushman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humanitarianism Intervention Iraq Iraq war Liberalism
“Assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong.” — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“We cannot prevail by our own might or strength, we need to plug on to the source of our strength so that we will… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
“A man with power protects and serves those lesser than he. It is only the weak who use their power to do harm.” — Rhys Ford Copy Share Image
“The greatest strength can be a weakness, if properly exploited.” — Charles Peterson Sheppard Copy Share Image
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak have to be strong enough to leave.” — Kundera Milan Copy Share Image
“We don’t protect them because they’re weak. We protect them because they are strong, and strong people make enemies.” — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“It has always belonged to the truly great and strong to care for the weak and feeble.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is no time for patience - there is no time for diplomacy - there is no time for policies, legislations and meaningless paperwork.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
“Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more concerned with… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good? — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by… — Linus Pauling Copy Share
“O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start walking with… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“This is what my Christmas looks like, And my Hanukkah, Ramadan, Diwali 'n Onam. I don't get to celebrate any of the festivals, So… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism selected randomly on the basis of charisma and popularity by hysterical whim. The mission, I repeat, is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share
“I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share