Acts of charity Quote by F. A. Harper

The greatest charity is to enable the poor to earn a living.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

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

— Margaret Sanger

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

— Garth Nix

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

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

— Honore de Balzac

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

— Muhammad Yunus

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

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

— James Cook

May your charity increase as much as your wealth

— Proverb

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so…

— Confucius

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

— Melinda Gates