To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
Madeleine AlbrightAs a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.
Mr. TCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles DickensThe rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl MarxSeven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.
Terry PratchettAny religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I think whenever something is – whenever there’s something that affects the public good, then there does need to be some form of public oversight.
Elon MuskThe answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.
Jordan PetersonStay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.
Mr. TThere is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.
Audrey HepburnThere are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
Nelson MandelaU2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
BonoConcupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise PascalMy father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.
David BowieTo give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
John RuskinThe United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative.
George W. BushWhen I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.
Joyce MeyerA first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.
Bill GatesGiving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
John D. RockefellerGiving back involves a certain amount of giving up.
Colin PowellCharity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. RockefellerYou can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.
Robert KiyosakiCapital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
Karl MarxThese days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that’s a scandal when we have so many riches and resources to give to everyone. We all have to think about how we can become a little poorer.
Pope FrancisYou give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Khalil GibranPrince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
Vivienne WestwoodI am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Benjamin FranklinOne must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
George EliotStates are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Noam ChomskyAlthough I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.
Bill GatesPhilanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘
Joseph AddisonWhere the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
Virginia WoolfIf you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Jesus ChristA strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
Edgar Allan PoeThe general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
Bill GatesIf you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother TeresaI think the first duty of society is justice.
Alexander HamiltonYou may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.
Robert Baden-PowellI just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.
J. ColeThere is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.
Nelson MandelaIt is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
Noam ChomskySeek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert SchweitzerMy mother always wanted to give back.
Lady GagaYou cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Samuel JohnsonPolitics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!
Pope FrancisWhen you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.
Angelina JolieThe ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.
Angelina JolieI have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.
Edmund HillaryLet your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.
George WashingtonI work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.
Lady GagaI’m a singer, not a politician, and I think you don’t want the two to get confused. It’s not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.
BonoToo many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert CamusWe ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus AureliusThe Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.
Dwayne JohnsonMy mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.
Bill GatesWhat charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen KingSurplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew CarnegieThere are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles DickensI like to give back.
Jackie Chan