#anita

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving...and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear. ↗

— Eve Curie

#humanitarian #inspirational #peace #ww #death

Raising the dead was easy; love was hard. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#love

I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen him, make him someone else. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#jean-claude #love #beauty

Sometimes, a war saves people. ↗

— José Ramos-Horta

#humanitarianism #pacifism #war #iraq

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#love #love

Sometimes love isn't about being smart. Sometimes it's about being stupid together. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#love #love

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#cerulean-sins #inspirational #inspirational

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. ↗

— Agnes Kamara-umunna

#hope #humanitarianism #inspirational #inspirational

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#different #diplomacy #enterprise #failure #hence

I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions. ↗

— Sheldon Adelson

#humanitarian #i #i see #legacy #pay