Charity Quote by Jean Baptiste Massillon

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Jewish Proverb

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

— Jane Smiley

I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society…

— Rohini Nilekani

I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The purpose of any charity is simply to turn people's mirrors into windows. An outward view of the world's needs are vast in comparison…

— Shannon L. Alder

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

— Cotton Mather

“Alas! Alas if your unshakable view of the world relies on your circumstantial receiving of charity!”

— Tim J. Brooks

Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

— Michel de Montaigne

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

— Henry George