No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.
When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.
Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.
I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
Oh, how an animal that is hurt looks up at you, John! An animal’s actions can inform you if it is in pain. It don’t hop and jump around as usual. No. You find a sad, crouching, cringing, small bunch of fur or hair, whining, and plainly asking you...
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic an...
Iedereen is zo bang om eenzaam te zijn, alsof aids en eenzaamheid de ergste dingen zijn die een mens kunnen overkomen besmettelijke ziekten zijn het aids door bloed en lichaamsvloeistoffen die zich met elkaar vermengen maar eenzaamheid is toch erger ...
[Aid workers are being airlifted from a village ahead of band of raiders. Justin brings aboard a local village girl] Jonah Andika: I'm sorry, I can't take the girl. Justin Quayle: I'm not leaving her! Jonah Andika: We're only allowed evacuate aid wor...
Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet?
Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once?" Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was.
A brick could be used to aid the lonely. Carry it with you, converse with it, and if you drink enough, you can even make love to it.
For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.
I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.
A Tinker's Debt is Always Paid: Once for a simple trade. Twice for freely given aid. Thrice for any insult made.
If you don't start playing by my rules, you'll be lucky to be licking stamps in some lowly, legal aid office.
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.
When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.
Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death
Love is the only wound that feels good and is both self-inflicted and caused by others. I should sell emotional Band-Aids.
The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.
