Acceptable Quote by H. Burke Peterson

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

— John D. Rockefeller

I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities…

— Nelson Mandela

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

Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.

— Robert L. Millet

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Giving what one does not possess is always a sign of charity.

— Vikrant Parsai

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into…

— James Anthony Froude

“Charity is giving to someone what he needs versus what you want to give him.”

— Patricia Cornwell

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

— Vincent de Paul

Charity is reaching into one's own pockets to assist his fellow man in need. Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man…

— Walter E. Williams

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

— David Thorne

“Giving to those in need what they could be gaining from their own initiative may well be the kindest way to destroy people. We…

— Robert D. Lupton