Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels… Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession...

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.

War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but...

By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.

It takes courage to do aid work but it takes bravery to put your thoughts and experiences out in front of the world.

On World Humanitarian Day 2014, thanks to ALL aid workers who carry or have carried out lifesaving work. Salute to our champions

We both know that I will not come. We both know that he won’t be in Canada. There will be another earthquake, another flood, another war, another reason to not go where we think we...

Over time, I have come to believe that there is a killer and a saint in all of us. But…I choose to focus on the future and the *potential* in people.

Sometimes, a war saves people.

Life is short. Life is uncertain. But we know that we have today. And we have each other. I believe that for each of us, there is a place on the frontlines.

For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash and advocated human relations based entirely on class allegiance. But my personal experience had shown me that most of the Chinese...

When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin.

There is a good deal of the Nietzschean standpoint in this verse. It is the evolutionary and natural view. Of what use is it to perpetuate the misery of tuberculosis, and such diseases, as we...

And most importantly, the next time someone asks you “Who are you?” you must answer in this simple way, with sincerity and conviction: “I am an Earth Citizen

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more concerned with bringing about peace, justice and equality in the world than in...

[S]ex trafficking and mass rape should no more be seen as women’s issues than slavery was a black issue or the Holocaust was a Jewish issue. These are all humanitarian concerns, transcending any one race,...

Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his...

I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I’d done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible

Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.

Humanitarian Logistics is about mobilization and movement of resources for disaster preparedness, disaster response and disaster recovery