Philanthropy Quotes · Page 7

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

— Sathya Sai Baba

In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to…

— Samuel Johnson

We are all part of the human family and we should be about doing what all good families do - caring for…

— Dan O'Neill

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

— Andrew Carnegie

Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young…

— Serinda Swan

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket...”

— Ambrose Bierce

Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.

— Booker T. Washington

If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role…

— Bill Gates

On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that…

— Warren Buffett

“- I'm going to turn my attention to philanthropy. - Is that the study of people named Phil? - It's mostly about…

— Scott Adams

“To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever…

— Bill Scott

One of the things that I realize is that if you look at big business, I mean, they - and what they…

— Rick Santorum

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us…

— Oprah Winfrey

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is…

— Mother Teresa

At the end of my journey, I see myself as a Rocket. That's where I ended my career, and also the organization…

— Dikembe Mutombo

“In my view, philanthropy goes against the grain; therefore it generates a lot of hypocrisy and many paradoxes. Here are some examples:…

— George Soros

The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of…

— Franklin Pierce

Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are…

— Colin Powell

A man may be a Bah' in name only. If he is a Bah' in reality, his deeds and actions will be…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

“Another word for private philanthropy, with different negative connotations, is charity. Charity was of course one of the principal obligations of the…

— Mencius Moldbug

Perhaps the perusal of such works may, without injustice, be compared with the use of opiates, baneful, when habitually and constantly resorted…

— Walter Scott

Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such…

— Gordon Wu

Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed…

— Herman Melville

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

— John F. Kennedy

My philanthropy is largely focused on healthcare, and I really want to make a difference to people's lives.

— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly…

— John Battelle

“You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it...take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her…

— Danell Lynn

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

— Frederic Bastiat

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

— Douglas William Jerrold

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the…

— Gladys Pyle

The currency of ones thinking for generosity of people welfare never devaluates and only buys newer ideas.

— Anuj Somany

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,…

— Rigoberta Menchu

Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to…

— Bill Gates

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

— Dan Pallotta

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the…

— Ellen Key

As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.

— Chanakya

“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which…

— Henry David Thoreau