Aid Quotes

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Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Foreign aid goes from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.

Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is HE guarding his country

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

A national movement, which does not include in its platform the demand for an economical change advantageous to the masses has no chance of success unless supported by foreign aid.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense...but when foreign aid is carefully guided and targeted at a specific issue, it can and must be effective.

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle. Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute.

We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

Foreign aid must be viewed as an investment, not an expense.

Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

Foreign aid has been perfected so that it subsidizes corporate U.S. agriculture while preventing poor countries from developing profitable agriculture or feeding themselves.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

Men invented money Women invented mutual aid

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

Adam Smith actually took all his best ideas and lines from sources from medieval Persia. But one thing he doesn't take is the underlying assumption they have that the basis of a market is mutual aid.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

...Sound foreign policy is more than arms control, foreign aid and paying (United Nations) dues.

Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.

Foreign aid is important. If it's done right, it spreads America's influence around the world in a positive way.

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

He created his own Kool Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It’s what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you’re bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.

This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be among your number one thoughts. What are you doing for others?

Education and Training For Life

Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

You want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.

I am happy that I can aid those admirable men, both living and dead, who by their pens or their tongues have aided the great cause of human liberty and universal happiness.