Quotes About Philanthropy

Perhaps there is no better illustration of the ethical impotency of the modern church than its failure to deal with the evils and ethical problems of stock manipulation. Millions in property values are created by pure legerdemain. Stock dividends, watered stock and excessive rise in stock values, due to the productivity of the modern machine, are accepted by the church without murmur if only a slight return is made by the beneficiaries through church philanthropies [1927].

it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

giving with display is not giving, but trading. I give you money, you give me prestige. Philanthropy that does not degrade is done so quietly not even the rescued learns the name of his rescuer.

Not many musicians can get 10000 people to show up and help pay his back taxes, and when farmers are going broke and transatlantic pipelines need to be stopped and towns are blown up in fertilizer explosions or schools for impaired children need to be built, Willie shows up. Does the show for free. For three hours. Everyone has a good time, and somewhere, Bono squirms just a little bit on that self-righteous cross he's nailed himself to.

Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money from it should put back into society, not just sit on it as if they are hatching eggs.

Be just before you're generous.

If laying down my life could stop the suffering in the world I'd do it. But I don't believe anything can stop it.

Do gooders don't interest me. They are the least interesting people on the planet.

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

To be wealthy, powerful or famous does mot matter to me. Starting a social good ripple that will turn to an ocean wave matters to me.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

WHAT WE GIVE TO THE POOR IS WHAT WE TAKE WITH US WHEN WE DIE.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

Eudemonia, on the other hand, is the happiness we get from what we give to the world.

In Buddhism, we define love as the wish to give happiness to others.

Having money means more opportunity to practice generosity," he agrees. "Which is the true cause of wealth.

Keep the change," he smiled. Was there ever a more empowering phrase than "Keep the change"?

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

Instead, he defined individualism as the freedom to achieve and the obligation to return something of value to the community that had nurtured and sustained him. I believe this was both the source and object of his philanthropy. As

Some have said that Grandfather and Father, along with Andrew Carnegie, invented modern philanthropy. That may be true, but it may also claim too much. What the two of them did was emphasize the need to move charitable activities away from treating the symptoms of social problems toward understanding and then eliminating the underlying causes. This led them both to embrace a scientific