Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Hawkins

I should make a donation to their favorite charity, because I didn't give 'em their money's worth, that's for sure,

Jane Addams

Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.

Eduardo Galeano

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

Everyone's having a good time ? it's for charity. But the firemen are probably a little upset right now.

We all liked working for this charity and we liked basketball. So we put the two together and started a tournament.

Dorothy Day

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.

Michael Bloomberg

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Mark Twain

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

But we were able to eventually get through that and pay back what we lost, and we got our money for charity back on the upswing again.

One, who gives in charity always gets happiness and sense of self-satisfaction.

Paris Hilton

No one writes about my charity work, they'd rather write about me dancing on a table, which I've never done.

Neither by study of the Vedas, nor by austerity, nor by charity, nor by ritual, can I be seen in this form as you have seen Me.

If they can't demonstrate they're using it for research purposes, or if they can't show that they're turning a profit and generating revenue for the charity, then it is highly questionable and doesn't look like something a charity should be doing.

If they knew that this money was charity money for hurricane relief, and then took it, that makes them kind of a low-life.

I have a feeling he's collected hundreds of thousands if not millions from people who need the money the most. He prayed on people with good hearts and good will. To give to charity to help the needy; it's not only part of the human nature, it's part of the faith.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Evita Peron

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Francis Quarles

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

Francis Atterbury

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

George Michael

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

George Soros

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

Garth Nix

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

Ferguson Jenkins

Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

Sathya Baba

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

(Charity) has been a part of it, but I think now we are trying to promote it. I think during the last two or three presidents, we have done more.

Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor

Sathya Baba

Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.

Oscar Wilde

Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.

Franklin Pierce

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Frederick William Robertson

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.