Generosity Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.”

— St. Vincent de Paul

“Charity is detrimental unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.”

— David Thorne

“A society with more justice needs less charity.”

— Ralph Nader

“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbours' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.”

— Anonymous

“[A] resistance that dispenses with consolations is always stronger than one which relies on them.”

— Perry Anderson

“Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Thu luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“parity is the higher form of charity.”

— Robert D. Lupton

“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity' infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“This is the paradox: it is against the law to defraud some one but legal, and highly lucrative, to defraud every one.”

— Wes Henricksen

“Sometimes what we have is valued the most when it is most fragile, when it is most threatened.”

— Ari Gunzburg

“Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this…

— Rebecca Goldstein