Charity Quote by Walter E. Williams

Reaching into someone else's pocket to assist one's fellow man hardly qualifies as charity.

— Walter E. Williams

There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to…

— Walter E. Williams

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.

— Elizabeth Berkley

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into…

— James Anthony Froude

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom…

— William Hazlitt

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so…

— Confucius

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

— John D. Rockefeller

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them…

— Peter Diamandis

Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and…

— Eli Broad

I have come to the conclusion that charity is only charity when you give goods, services or money without personal gain, benefit or recognition…

— Jim Pinto

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

— James Cook

What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks…

— Swami Vivekananda