Generosity Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Anyone who attacks individual charity, attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“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

“Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done,…

— Ayn Rand

“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity' and the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the mistaken notion…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Showing dignity is more important than charity because the latter is easily forgotten!”

— Sarah Tse

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

— Theodor Herzl

“It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world's needs are vast in comparison…

— Shannon L. Alder

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

— George Orwell

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom…

— William Hazlitt

“Charity is obedient1 to no created thing, but only to Love. Charity has nothing of her own, and even if she had anything, she…

— Margaret Porette