Charity Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

— Hosea Ballou

Organized charity itself is. . . the surest sign that our civilization has bred, is breeding and is perpetuating constantly increasing numbers of defectives,…

— Margaret Sanger

I think all philanthropy invests in product innovation, whether in a vaccine or a new kind of product of one sort or another, and…

— Judith Rodin

While governments are not off the hook, the charity world needs to innovate and find new ways to attract outside investment to boost our…

— Craig Kielburger

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's…

— Wendell Berry

If charity cost nothing, the world would be full of philanthropists.

— Jewish Proverb

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

— Ouida

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

— Emanuel Swedenborg

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

— John D. Rockefeller

“I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success.”

— Anonymous

“No. Charity, like Socialism, is an invention of the weak to exploit the strong and bring them to their knees."

— Isabel Allende