Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar…

— Zach Braff

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

— Edmund Burke

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities…

— Jean Baptiste Massillon

I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum.

— Jack Monroe

The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams.

— Anonymous

Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an…

— F. A. Harper

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I…

— John Wyndham

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy,…

— Jeff Fortenberry

It's always great to be able to give back to the community.

— Nikola Vucevic

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

I like to give back.

— Jackie Chan

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity,…

— Jerry Brown

“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,…

— Shannon L. Alder

I own about 300 pairs of shoes. When I start to go over 300, I have mini-sales from my closet and give the money…

— Stacy London