Hugo Slim > Quotes

“We jokingly queried the phrase because our work did not always feel wonderful but rather difficult, contested, confusing and prone to failure of various kinds.”
― Hugo Slim, Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster

“On the contrary, reading or listening to many critical academics, returning aid workers, journalists and politicians commenting on humanitarian operations, one might well think that the profession is actually an abomination. Humanitarian action is often portrayed as the inept self-interested work of ignorant neo-colonial devils, rather than as an efficient and effective caring profession.”
― Hugo Slim, Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster