Beneficence Quote by Henry Fielding

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

— John D. Rockefeller

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 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

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

— David Thorne

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

If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

— Frederic Bastiat

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

— Robert L. Millet

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

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

— Robert Southey

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

— Lord Chesterfield

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

— Swami Vivekananda

Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is…

— David Cannadine