Forcing people to be generous isn’t humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate. – Harry Browne
The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. – Irving Babbitt
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses. – Irving Babbitt
The Great Seal was an early proclamation of ‘humanitarian intervention,’ to use the currently fashionable phrase. – Noam Chomsky
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
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. – Noam Chomsky
Further, Japan is the second largest donor in Iraq after the United States, with over $5 billion dollars for humanitarian, infrastructure and reconstruction projects. – Michael K. Simpson
It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism – but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism. – Kai Bird
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur – only about one third of the estimated total population in need. – Jan Egeland
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. – Leon Panetta
Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur. – Jan Egeland
I’ve made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts. – Sharon Stone
A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it’s the humanitarian principle he’s defending, I suppose. – Rachel Cusk
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn’t do it very well. – Ralph Fiennes
He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead. – Voltaire
We’ve killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war – mostly by blocking humanitarian aid. – Woody Harrelson