Alms Quote by Edmund Burke Download Open image “To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.” — Edmund Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alms Cruelty Freedom Independence Men Welfare
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax Copy Share Image
“Cruelty is only for men, as is mercy. Only we can choose one or the other, and beasts cannot.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Therefore any cruelty has to be executed at once, so that the less it is tasted, the less it offends; while benefits must be… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing. Go in your… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Alms (is) for the purity of your soul, and flourishment and expansion of your sustenence. — Fatima bint Muhammad Copy Share Image
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
“Pesa itolewe kwa masharti au bila masharti chukua, kwani huyo aliyeitoa si yake. Benki, kwa mfano, ikitaka kukupa mkopo itakuwa na masharti yake; chukua,… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The best remedy for dryness of spirit, is to picture ourselves as beggars in the presence of God and the Saints, and like a… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
![“Give a drink of water as alms to the birds which go forth at morning, and deem that they have a better right than men [to thy charity]. For their race brings not harm upon thee in any wise, when thou fearest it from thine own race.” quote by Al-Maʿarri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/915/al-ma-arri-47224_alms_give-a-drink-of-water-as-alms-to-the-bir_171746.jpg)