Top 416 Humanitarian Quotes & Sayings

The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

Hamas is a humanitarian organization.

What happened in the following years? Well, I think that among the educated classes it stayed the same. You talk about humanitarian intervention, it's like Vietnam was a humanitarian intervention. Among the public, it's quite different.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

They think my father has a lack of concern for human rights, but regardless of details, the Americans should be humanitarian in dealing with his family, because we are human. Saddam has three young ladies and they have children, I have five, Rana has four, and Hala has two. Therefore, our father is very dear to us. His grandchildren love him a lot. Why aren't humanitarian factors taken into account?

The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.

I think the place maybe to watch with the greatest worry right at the moment, and to try to help the most, may be those parts of Africa around Somalia that are enduring a climate-caused and really record-breaking drought. It may be the greatest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II. And of course, where humanitarian crises happen, so do political instability. This is the world that we're building and building fast. And it's the world that people are trying somehow to slow down. Trying very hard to bring down this fossil fuel machine before it does any more damage.

The issue of corruption in the humanitarian system is not an issue which is fundamentally different from dangers of corruption in other areas. One of the best ways to strengthen accountability is to engage in principled and law-based humanitarian action.

There is a myth that those who do humanitarian work have a saviour mentality, but the relationship is reciprocal.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

[It is important] to have stability and to have security, which means humanitarian equals fighting terrorists. You cannot talk about humanitarian aid and supporting the terrorists at the same time. You cannot, you have to choose.

There are good, humanitarian people everywhere - occasionally even in the Church.

Access to humanitarian assistance and information are all the more important during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

The BET definition of a humanitarian is someone who perpetuates a war on cops.

I did a lot of humanitarian work before I joined the military.

The natural economic, humanitarian and social integration, do not require any armed forces.

If the Obama regime gave a hoot about 'humanitarian crisis,' the Obama regime would not have orchestrated humanitarian crisis in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen.

I think Aleppo is a disaster, humanitarian-wise.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.

The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.

There is never a humanitarian solution for a humanitarian crisis. The solutions for the humanitarian crisis are always political ones.

When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.

Originally, I wanted to do humanitarian work. I actually feel that getting into acting, which fate has led me to, is my window and path into humanitarian work. I always said I want to do something important. And I feel this work is what's helping me get there.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

On humanitarian intervention in general, I guess my view is not unlike the view that was attributed to Gandhi, accurately or not, when he was supposedly asked what he thought about western civilization. He is supposed to have said that he thought it would be a good idea. Similarly, humanitarian intervention would be a good idea, in principle.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

There's a great satisfaction in humanitarian work.

Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.

The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting.

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions.

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

A more stable, stabilized Mideast, that's a humanitarian victory.

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

The largest humanitarian victory we can deliver is by wiping ISIS off the face of the earth.

I'd love to do something in a more humanitarian context. I think it will come to me.

The first question is something immediate -- and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

We need to continue to modernise current humanitarian work while at the same time drive a more systemic shift in how we envision the operation and financing of humanitarian solutions.

The humanitarian ecosystem is diverse - not only is there a variety of traditional humanitarian actors, but the system should also embrace an increasing diversity of private sector actors.

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

Humanitarian action cannot be held hostage to political ends.

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

Humanitarian assistance and exchanges are still allowed, even under the sanctions regime on North Korea. Therefore, in parallel with sanctions and pressure, we must also employ humanitarian assistance. The meeting of separated families is also a measure to ensure human rights.

Our country has been the leading provider of humanitarian aid for refugees.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

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

I like to think of myself as a humanitarian.

Humanitarian work is something I've felt from very young, and I'm going to do that for sure.

The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God. But he is confronted by two awkward facts; first, that the competent do not need his assistance; and second, that the majority of people positively do not want to be "done good" by the humanitarian. Of course, what the humanitarian actually proposes is that he shall do what he thinks is good for everybody. It is at this point that the humanitarian sets up the guillotine.

I think the global community always has a ... has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.

Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.

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

Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.