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Humanitarian Quotes
Compassion measured against hard trade-offs.
These humanitarian quotes range from calling lower cancer drug prices a genuinely humanitarian move to raising hard questions about aid reaching the people it is meant for, both rooted in Compassion.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a super suburban place where the mundane middle-class issues were similar to what Ray Davies was singing about. All the topics he was singing about were middle-class woes and humanitarian woes - human-being woes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it in the American national interest.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to provide humanitarian assistance to civilians and accept our fair share of refugees.
- Nov 07, 2020
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has always been clear that any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As conflicts last longer, as the scale of needs increase, we are having to adapt. There is an increasing blurring between immediate humanitarian assistance and long-term development needs.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Short-termism is no longer an option. We have to envisage humanitarian action with a medium- and long-term perspective.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative capacity of the private sector should be harnessed to develop new and more effective ways to deliver humanitarian solutions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If private-sector capital can be harnessed for social good, the potential to scale humanitarian solutions is vast.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020