Quotes About Philanthropy

Our mission to space had to serve a bigger purpose, which is why St. Jude is such a big part of this. It can't simply just be about opening the door to space for everyday people.

Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.

Humph! tell your Aunt Agatha, Harry, not to bother me any more with her charity appeals. I am sick of them. Why, the good woman thinks that I have nothing to do but to write cheques for her silly fads." "All right, Uncle George, I'll tell her, but it won't have any effect. Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

I always pass on good advice.  It is the only thing to do with it.  It is never of any use to oneself. mabel

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

had the heart of a socialist and the soul of a missionary

They were philanthropists, helping out with charitable and cultural causes, but when it came to anything progressive like a new belt-line around Buffalo, or moving toll-barriers, or raising taxes to support a crumbling school system, they drew the lines around what could be done, not what should be done, to protect their insular world of being the best kept secret in the northeast as far as cost of living went.

On the first landing, Langdon came face-to-face with a bronze bust of Masonic luminary Albert Pike, along with the engraving of his most famous quote: What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.

I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

The philanthropist who could not pass a beggar without parting with his money, the nature lover who felt he did not have the right to stamp on a spider let alone mistreat a horse, the humanitarian who opposed slavery because it was the "absolute dependence of one man upon another," was utterly convinced he had every right to keep a young woman subject to his total command and groom her to meet his desires

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.

As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.