A Bed for the Night Quotes

“All major religious traditions accept that suffering and death are simply part of life. The deep radicalism of humanitarian action is its belief that people are not made to suffer.”
― David Rieff, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis

“So many people, including relief workers, talk these days about 'mere' charity, 'mere' humanitarianism. As if coping with a dishonourable world honourably, and a cruel world with kindness, were not honour enough.”
― David Rieff, A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis