Adam Schiff Quotes

You’ve got to help people that are downtrodden and poor, and I just think that that’s part of our culture. You’ve got to help people that can’t help themselves.

The poverty of a man of benevolence is not to be considered as poverty but only as his temporary inability to exercise his inherent duty.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition.

We can't turn our back on people who need help.

Though we cannot relieve all the distressed, we should relieve as many as we can.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

These days, only the most extreme, most apocalyptic situations are likely to move donors in the rich world.

You 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.

When we say, 'We are starving,' we have to remember that there are people who are literally starving. If everyone fed one person, one meal, we could make a huge difference.

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

When I became an actor, I decided I had enough time, talent, and resources to support people who are in dire need of assistance.

I believe, as do most people, that we have an obligation to assist the truly destitute.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?

Not to share one’s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.

Whenever I see a homeless guy, I always run back and give him money, because I think, 'Oh my God, what if that was Jesus?'

If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.

Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just.