318 Quotes About Humanitarianism

What good is your knowledge of five thousand books if it doesn't even help five people!

The worth of knowledge is to be measured based on whether it benefits others without discrimination.

As long as they killed people with conventional rather than nuclear weapons, they were praised as humanitarian statesmen. As long as they did not use nuclear weapons, it appeared, nobody was going to give the right name to all the killing that had been going on since the end of the Second World War, which was surely “World War Three.

Sometimes, a war saves people.

The first problem with the “how can we help the refugees” question is the question itself. The premise of the question is flawed and problematic at two levels: first, it draws a clear boundary in power relations by assuming more power to the ‘we’, the Western people doing the ‘helping’, and therefore simultaneously grants them the power of choosing to deny refugees this ‘help’, if so they choose.

Don’t tell the wealthy that the nightly humming they hear in order to sleep is made possible from the distant wheels of a midnight cart being rolled by a man who dreams of a bed.

Right now all we have is sheer mockery of humanity, that's why we try to comfort ourselves with shallow notions of humanitarianism, charity and holiness.

If you want your life to mean something, don't ask how much you have, ask how much you can give.

Life is to lift the world, not party.