Quotes About Philanthropy

Teaching was one of the ways both rich dad and poor dad gave to others. But rich dad also gave money to his church, to charities, and to his foundation. He knew that to receive money, he also had to give it.

Focus on the most important law of money: "Give, and you shall receive." Instead, he believed in: "Receive, and then you give.

What would my life be like if I never had to work again?" "What would I do if I had all the money I needed?

It is due to these legal loopholes that so many rich people donate their mansions or other parts of their estate at the end of their lives.

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Charity with a smile shows the donor's character.

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return.

I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

The exclusive focus of the reform movement on Leopold's Congo seems even more illogical if you reckon mass murder by the percentage of the population killed. By these standards, the toll was even worse among the Hereros in German South West Africa, today's Namibia. The killing there was masked by no smokescreen of talk about philanthropy. It was genocide, pure and simple, starkly announced in advance.

As king of a small country with no public interest in colonies, he recognized that a colonial push of his own would require a strong humanitarian veneer. Curbing the slave trade, moral uplift, and the advancement of science were the aims he would talk about, not profits. In 1876, he began planning a step to establish his image as a philanthropist and advance his African ambitions: he would host a conference of explorers and geographers.

today's Namibia. The killing there was masked by no smokescreen of talk about philanthropy. It was genocide, pure and simple, starkly announced in advance.

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.

Today's ideology masquerades as pragmatism with that pragmatism reduced to the simplistic assumption that the basis of human nature is self-interest, a view which discount philanthropy, discredits altruism, with the only motive deserving of trust self-promotion and self-advancement. This so-called pragmatism is wicked and it is doubly so because it is held up as being both realistic and a virtue. Whereas it is shallow, shabby and all too often callous.

Dharma is all about helping the helpless.

Charity is called daan, alms are called bhiksha and service fee is called dakshina.

You should not face the world if you are unable to give to the world

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.

For this is a great sin, to not share with those who have thirst.