Inspirational Humanitarian Quotes & Sayings

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all ... that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving ... and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear. — Eve Curie

Global reinsurance companies are making billions in profits, in part by selling new kinds of protection schemes to developing countries that have done almost nothing to create the climate crisis, but whose infrastructure is intensely vulnerable to its impacts.8 — Naomi Klein

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. — Paul Karl Feyerabend

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

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power. — William James

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

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment. — Robert Irwin

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. — Ernie Fletcher

I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville. — Lionel Richie

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. — Joan Rivers

All major religious traditions accept that suffering and death are simply part of life. The deep radicalism of humanitarian action is its belief that people are not made to suffer. — David Rieff

If they make the choice to walk over me rather than walk with me, I'll have to love them from afar. — Lysa TerKeurst

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. — Tallulah Bankhead

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

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run. — Cam Neely

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates. — Jane Frances De Chantal

God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly — Joseph Caryl

He lowered his head until his mouth was above mine, so close I could taste his minty breath. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

As much deeper you go as much more shit you find down there. But what happens with you? — Deyth Banger

A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

... food is capable of feeding far more than a rumbling stomach. Food is life; our well-being demands it. Food is art and magic; it evokes emotion and colors memory, and in skilled hands, meals become greater than the sum of their ingredients. Food is self-evident; plucked right from the ground or vine or sea, its power to delight is immediate. Food is discovery; finding an untried spice or cuisine is for me like uncovering a new element. Food is evolution; how we interpret it remains ever fluid. Food is humanitarian: sharing it bridges cultures, making friends of strangers pleasantly surprised to learn how much common ground they ultimately share. — Anthony Beal

If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love. — Abhijit Naskar