Quotes About Philanthropy

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

Giving back has always been instilled in me since I was a little girl. To me, it's been something that's a been part of my life.

I am a big believer that you can have a successful business and give back; it's just about the intention behind starting your business.

Donors do not reward good intentions.

I'm not really interested in making money.

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

Man should receive gracefully the bread returning to him upon the water - freely ye have given, freely ye shall receive.

An idealist is someone who helps other people to be prosperous

La Ley se ha pervertido bajo la influencia de dos causas bien diferentes: el egoísmo falto de inteligencia y la falsa filantropía.

Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human greed; the other is in misconceived philanthropy.

Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false philanthropy. Before

If abnegation has indeed so many charms for you, why do you fail to practice it in private life? Society will be grateful to you, for someone, at least, will reap the fruit; but to desire to impose it upon mankind as a principle is the very height of absurdity, for the abnegation of all is the sacrifice of all, which is evil erected into a theory.

The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes—bare egotism and false philanthropy.

quando se tenta fazer a lei religiosa, fraternal, igualitária, filantrópica, industrial, literária, artística, logo se atinge o infinito, o incerto, o desconhecido, a utopia imposta ou, o que é pior, uma infinidade de utopias em luta para apossar-se da lei e se impor. Pois a fraternidade e a filantropia, ao contrário da justiça, não têm limites fixos. Onde pararão? Onde parará a lei?

The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy. Let us speak of the first.

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

I'm not big on Halloween. I never have been. As a kid my parents would send me out to collect for UNICEF, which just screws up the whole holiday.

You give, give, give. Why? Because you love to. It's not a strategy, it's a way of life.

about balancing capitalism with moral sentiment, especially over the distribution and use of profits for the good of mankind.

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

For once you have realised these same people are your little brothers and sisters then how could you not want to help them become healthy, happy and free?  What is money? Just a physical substance/matter; we are much more than that.

The whole process at the "Inny," as it was known, imitated a grand and long-standing intellectual tradition, and nothing defined it better than the august school motto: No nobis solum set toti mundo nati—You're born not for yourself but for the whole world.