Faith Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity' infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men…

— Herbert Hoover

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be…

— Lucy Parsons

“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity' and the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“And humanism—that transcendent vision that spans centuries and religions in its celebration of reason, responsibility, art, and examined lives—has been tossed out like old…

— Jean Hegland

“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.  It has led…

— Oscar Wilde

“It’s only human,' you cry in defense of any depravity, reaching the stage of self-abasement where you seek to make the concept 'human' mean…

— Ayn Rand

“While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way…

— Rachel Held Evans

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we…

— Eric Hoffer

“The essence of humanism is that belief of which he seems never to have doubted, that nothing which has ever interested living men and…

— Walter Pater

“Anyone who attacks individual charity, attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”

— Mark Twain