Generosity Quote by David Graham Phillips

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on…

— Baruch Spinoza

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become…

— Chinua Achebe

Those who would administer [charity] wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate…

— Andrew Carnegie

“No. Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees."

— Isabel Allende

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

— Pope Francis

“your poverty is serving no one. If you’re a charitable person, you’d be a whole lot more charitable if you had lots of money.”

— Napoleon Hill

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by…

— Abraham Lincoln

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in the hands…

— Owen Jones

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

“A society with more justice needs less charity.”

— Ralph Nader

“While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way…

— Rachel Held Evans