Quotes About Humanitarian Intervention

#1. I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

Stanley Hauerwas

#2. 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

#3. The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.

Noam Chomsky

#4. Whenever you're talking about meaning, basically ... I think a lot of the human experience has to do with trying to understand what things mean, and there's not really any tools to do that unless you're thinking about it in a more spiritual or philosophical realm.

Win Butler

#5. [O]ver sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death.

Mohsin Hamid

#6. The Red Cross, our last hope, had left us to starve.

Savo Heleta

#7. We must all take care to resist the tendency to focus too much attention on the role that criminals and prior offenders play in gun violence.

James Florio

#8. It isn't the size of the window that determines how much you see. It's which way the window is facing, and how close you are, and whether the glass is clear.

John Piper

#9. As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.

Emmet Fox

#10. And the two heavenly bodies danced around their star...

Brian K. Vaughan

#11. Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#12. We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance

Maya Angelou

#13. Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

Ishmael Reed

#14. If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

Palmer Luckey

#15. Sometimes, a war saves people.

Jose Ramos-Horta

#16. 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

#17. When I speak My lips feel cold - The autumn wind.

Matsuo Basho

#18. The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic denouement of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia). ... Hope was not restored in Somalia. Democracy was not upheld in Haiti.

Stan Goff

#19. For some the journey of highschool was probably pleasent or easy like swimming down a stream or walking down the street, but for me it was like climbing up a muddy hill ... while its raining ... with no shoes.

Elizabeth S. Rolph

#20. The question shouldn't be what we ought to do, but what we can do.

Rory Stewart

#21. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

John Milton

#22. Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

Julianna Baggott

#23. Whereas marketing was once brand-based, with growth hacking it becomes metric and ROI driven.

Ryan Holiday