Un Humanitarian Affairs Quotes & Sayings

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs. — Marianne Williamson

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. — Boris Yeltsin

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go — Sophie Germain

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. — Harold Coffin

Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust. — H.P. Lovecraft

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be. — Robert McKee

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed. — Jude Law

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next ... It is still unwritten. — Mitch Albom

He turned out to be a tender and considerate lover, despite his unfortunate, sharply angled pubic bone, which first time hurt like hell. He apologised for it, as one might for a mad but distant relative. By which I mean he was not particularly embarrassed. We settled the matter by making love with a folded towel between us, a remedy I sensed he had often used before. — Ian McEwan

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