Charity Quotes

This is to assuage our conscience… But it doesn’t help the poor. They don’t need charity; they need justice.

It’s easier to donate a few thousands to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement.

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charity ain’t giving people what you wants to give, it’s giving people what they need to get.

Beneficence is a duty. He who often practises this, and sees his beneficent purpose succeed, comes at last really to love him whom he has benefited.[Wohltun ist Pflicht. Wer diese oft ausübt und es gelingt ihm mit seiner wohltätigen Absicht, kommt endlich wohl gar dahin, den, welchem er wohl getan hat, wirklich zu lieben.]

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

Anyone who attacks individual charity attacks human nature and casts contempt on personal dignity.[Кто посягает на единичную “милостыню” тот посягает на природу человека и презирает его личное достоинство.]