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

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited. — Jeff Cohen

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian. — Daniel D. Palmer

Forget race, forget gender, forget religion, and become a human my friend. Become a human above everything else, and all great things shall follow. — Abhijit Naskar

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes, — Navi Pillay

You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane. — Rebecca McNutt

We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences. — Miya Yamanouchi

I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature. — Gregory Maguire

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states. — Vladimir Putin

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. — Voltaire

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs. — Jesse Jackson

I shall die ... as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian. — Henry Stephens Salt

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

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

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. — Noam Chomsky

I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be. — Princess Diana

Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother. — Stephen Rodrick

We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. — Woody Harrelson

A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying. — Boris Yeltsin

Sometimes, a war saves people. — Jose Ramos-Horta

For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused. — Agatha Christie

All South Sudanese deserve consistent and unimpeded humanitarian assistance, regardless of if they live in areas held by rebel or government forces. — John Prendergast

The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid. — Elliott Abrams

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so. — Marianne Williamson

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 least one can do. — Emmanuelle Beart

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower? — Howard Zinn

Hamas is a humanitarian organization. — Nancy Pelosi

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one. — Tony Abbott

Behind tranquillity lies conquered unhappiness. — J. William T. Youngs

I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment. — Agatha Christie

Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. — Daryl Hannah

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. — Mary Harris Jones

I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts. — Sharon Stone

U.A.E.'s continuously growing initiatives in the field of charitable and humanitarian works became a basic component of our foreign activities. — Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster. — Janeane Garofalo

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. — Cat Stevens

The humanitarian Carol Hegedus reminds us, Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves. — Mark Nepo

He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. — Damon Runyon

Scientific knowledge does not contain within itself directions for its humanitarian use. — Thomas Szasz

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

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action. — Isabel Paterson

You're trying to reach progressive, humanitarian goals with a tool that isn't suited to the job. Who has humanitarian dreams? — Ursula K. Le Guin

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

I have spent a lot of my life trying to do good and be a humanitarian, to write about difficult places, and to tell the story of oppressed peoples. — Andrew Solomon

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive. — Mahatma Gandhi

Passion + Commitment + Endurance ... =
The Heart Of A Great Humanitarian. — Timothy Pina

For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia]. — Angelina Jolie

All story fiction is both truth that happens and never happens. Fiction is always about humanity, even if no subject is humanitarian or even human. — Richard Bunning

I like to think of myself as a humanitarian. — Seal

I am convinced that dealing intelligently with the press is of the greatest importance to the success and effectiveness of a humanitarian mission. — Alvin Adams

My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense. — Marianne Williamson

The Red Cross, our last hope, had left us to starve. — Savo Heleta

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

Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp. — David Cameron

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite — George Orwell

East DR Congo Faces Catastrophic Humanitarian Crisis 4,450 — Alain De Botton

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

We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days. — Tony Abbott

We need to change society's ordering principle from economic to humanitarian values, from money as the bottom line to love as the bottom line. — Marianne Williamson

The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere. — Dorothy L. Sayers

On World Humanitarian Day 2014, thanks to ALL aid workers who carry or have carried out lifesaving work. Salute to our champions — Widad Akreyi

I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well. — Frances Beinecke

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

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. — Elizabeth Taylor

Unfortunately, the greater the humanitarian outreach, the greater the violence required to achieve it. — Ron Paul

Pommel of his saddle and his helmet with a nose-piece, arms which might well prevent him from reaching any conclusions based on humanitarian logic, — Jose Saramago

Human race don't go extinct but only if we treat each other as a human regardless of gender, color, class, and ethnicity. — Mohith Agadi

everyone smiles in the same language. — Anonymous

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness. — Robert A. Heinlein

Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. — Abhijit Naskar

Anyone who is speaking of a greater compassion, a greater humanitarian concern, is a leader paving the path we all need to follow. — Marianne Williamson

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian — William Faulkner

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

Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian — Kowtham Kumar K

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people. — Howard Zinn

The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do. — Rory Stewart

Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives. — Ann Coulter

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

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

The worst reality a humanitarian faces is when a caged animal runs back into its cage, after being released from its prison. — Alejandro C. Estrada

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. — Irving Babbitt

Every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine, and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza. — Charles Krauthammer

In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves. — Seth Adam Smith

Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one. — Simone Elkeles

I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa. — Janine Di Giovanni

If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises! — Nguyen Van Thieu

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between. — Belart Wright

The growth of writing and literacy strikes me as the best candidate for an exogenous change that helped set off the Humanitarian Revolution. — Steven Pinker

Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move. — Yusuf Hamied

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics. — Mahatma Gandhi

The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation. — Richelle E. Goodrich