Freya Stark Quotes

I think, charitable foundations are, in general, a good thing.

Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.

I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago.

What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle.

The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.

You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

May God be my witness that there will not be a poor man in my Czardom... and even to my last shirt I will share with all.

There's no compassion like the penny.

If everyone gives one thread, the poor man will have a shirt.

Poverty was nowhere more endurable than in a country where duty towards one's neighbor, that is, one's fellow-citizen, was practiced with the utmost piety, as a means of gaining the favor of God the King.

The American people do not have to be bribed by the tax code to make charitable contributions.

The variety and expenditure of the religious charities at Damascus are beyond computation. There are charities in aid of persons who cannot undertake the pilgrimage to Mecca, out of which are paid the expenses of those who go in their stead. There are other charities for supplying wedding outfits to girls whose families are unable to provide them, and others for the freeing of prisoners. There are charities for travelers, out of the revenues of which they are given food, clothing, and the expenses of conveyance to their countries.

The second part of all his revenues, which came yearly into his possession, and was included in the receipts of the exchequer, as we mentioned a little before, he, with ready devotion, gave to God, ordering his ministers to divide it carefully into four parts, on the condition that the first part should be discreetly bestowed on the poor