a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Anybody doing philanthropy has to find something that appeals to them from their own personal background or from intellectual curiosity. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
Fifty seven million children across the world don't want an iPhone, Xbox or chocolates. They want a book and pen. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
But charity is a very complicated thing. Its important to find an area where you can really help and you can feel… — Roman Abramovich Copy Share Image
We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of… — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today.… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“It was my mother who regularly reminded me that I was merely a steward of any wealth I gained. With wealth came… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
[May] this civic and social landmark [the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center] ... be a constant reminder of the inspiring service that… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
In the four decades of philanthropy that have paralleled my business career, I've found that the same principles apply whether you're providing… — Michael Milken Copy Share Image
Private philanthropy is the direct expression of the great Christian principle of the brotherhood of man and the Golden Rule. Private philanthropy… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Many of the problems of poverty and need are really problems of physical infrastructure: not enough hospitals, too few schools, insufficient roads,… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
“The moral which presents itself to my reflections, as drawn from Hollingsworth's character and errors, is simply this, that, admitting what is… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy. — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
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