Calling Quote by Emma Thompson

One of the most crucial kinds of intervention is in advocacy. We can think about charities in the context of delivering services, and indeed…

— Nicholas Kristof

This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty.

— Muhammad Yunus

Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a…

— Ayn Rand

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more…

— Arundhati Roy

Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the…

— Annie Lennox

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…

— Margaret Sanger

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal.…

— Eduardo Galeano

When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding…

— Muhammad Yunus

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

— Eduardo Galeano

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

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are…

— James Madison