Quotes about Philanthropy

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

Philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

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.

I am not preoccupied with collecting more goods and services; quite simply, my desire and effort—every day—is to pay back, to give back to the world a bit of what I have received.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all, and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could for them, as our fellowmen for whom Christ also died.

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?