Quotes About Charity

Death, mademoiselle, unfortunately creates a prejudice. A prejudice in favour of the deceased... There is a great charity always to the dead.

She looked, Inspector Curry reflected, exactly as the relict of a canon of the Established Church should look—which was almost odd, because so few people ever did look like what they really were. Even the tight line of her lips had an ascetic ecclesiastical flavour. She expressed Christian Endurance, and possibly Christian Fortitude. But not, Curry thought, Christian Charity.

There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me—the truth.

I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is not charitable to refrain from moral judgment: when Jesus says 'Judge not, lest ye be judged," he is forbidding condemnation, not discernment. There are times indeed when Christian charity demands that one speak forcibly.

A day should not pass without acts of loving-kindness, either with one's body, money, or soul.

The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.

I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.

My wife Julie and I are driven to make positive and enduring change in our beloved city of Philadelphia, in California, in Haiti, and around the world.

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

I hate the term 'philanthropist.'

Apart from acting and singing, there is a philanthropist inside me who craves to do something for the needy and less fortunate.

I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.

I am not giving so much of my wealth that I should feel that I am a philanthropist.

The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.

My goal is to work diligently to become the top philanthropist in the world.

As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of doing business.

As a philanthropist, I fund a lot of NGOs.

Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.

The best rule for philanthropy is to give until it hurts, as much as you can, because none of us can get through life all by ourselves.

There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

Supposing I write out a cheque for a billion dollars to the foundation, does it mean anything? There must be evidence of philanthropy. Otherwise, I'm sitting with that money, earning interest exactly the way in my holding company.

I think philanthropy is so much more in keeping with spirit of shouting someone out than a material reward.

My daughter is very happy doing philanthropy, especially in the schools.