Abuse Quote by Cotton Mather

May your charity increase as much as your wealth

— Proverb

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take…

— Ban Ki-moon

My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

— Mason Cooley

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

— John D. Rockefeller

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would…

— Maya Angelou

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

— Edward Abbey

In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true…

— Pope Francis

I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society…

— Rohini Nilekani

Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me…

— Roy Jones Jr

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

— William Shakespeare

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

— Ayn Rand

“Charity is detrimental unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.”

— David Thorne