No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.
In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.
Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action,. . . Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.
The psychological effects of having to hold a prospectless position for what might seem an infinite amount of time does nothing to aid the defender's concentration.
You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.
I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.
The will of the United States can be shaken by suiciders and suiciders who are willing to drive up to a Red Cross center, a center of international help and aid and comfort, and just kill. [. . . ] The strategy remains the same. The tactics to respond to more suiciders driving cars will alter on the ground.
We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation.
Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
Play hardball with Musharraf, but don't cut off US aid.
Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.
Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.
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.
Trust me, you're not my first choice to fight next to, Sunshine, but as as much as it would simplify things, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I left you to her tender mercies. " (Seth to Keenan as he comes to his aid against Bananach)
Exercise will aid in the work of digestion. Take a walk after a meal; but no violent exercise after a full meal.
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways. . . why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?
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.
Im the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.