Belief Quote by Michel de Montaigne

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

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 the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

— Pope Francis

Charity sees the need, not the cause

— German Proverb

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

— Cotton Mather

“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

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be…

— Michael Ghiselin

Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only…

— H. Burke Peterson

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

— Ayn Rand