Charity Quote by George Sand Download Open image “Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.” — George Sand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charity Generosity
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Charity is detrimental unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.” — David Thorne Copy Share Image
Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less. — James Cook Copy Share Image
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. — George Sand Copy Share Image
I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary. — George Sand Copy Share Image
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot. — George Sand Copy Share Image
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable. — George Sand Copy Share Image
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar… — Zach Braff 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
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Considering community support and cost-benefit analysis, I have supported earmarks for projects of high public purpose involving such areas as higher education, alternative energy,… — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
