Quotes About Philanthropy

When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people.

My goal from the beginning was, if I ever hit it it big, I would give back. And that continues to be my goal moving forward.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Muhammad Ali was the greatest of all time. But what made him even greater was what he did outside the ring.

People don't really want to hear me say this, but a black person who will give a million dollars to the Museum of Modern Art but won't give a million to the Studio Museum in Harlem is simply mistaken.

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

Most Muslim charities are run by good people.

I want to work with my husband and my daughter on our mutual foundation interests.

Charity fundraising galas have always been a wonderful way to support a myriad of causes.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

All my life, when children have asked me for money, I've told them to fuck right off. But you've taught me that there's a positive side to charity. Thank you.

Until you have done something for humanity," wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

Although he is a soft touch for any cause that helps lift up needy people or perpetuate democracy, he believes that the "tithe" he gives—nearly half of his earnings—is the least anyone should give who is "blessed to live in a great democracy.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.

Il visitait les pauvres tant qu'il avait de l'argent; quand il n'en avait plus, il visitait les riches.

Chapter1 M. Myriel

provide enough for those who have too little. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.