Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity.... All they need is financial capital.

Too many Mainers are dependent on government handouts. Government dependency has not - and never will - create prosperity.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; and does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities.

We should remember the poor.

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.

Last year in the United States alone over $98 billion was distributed in unearned government transfer payments and other aid to millions of men and women who most often did nothing for what they received. This character-weakening government dole is repeated in almost every nation of the world. We encourage Latter-day Saints everywhere to remain free of government assistance. Work for what you receive.

My fans are indulging in social welfare activities from time to time and have also been helping economically backward students.

Almes never make poore.

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.

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

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

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

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

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.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

In our family, where we began with no money, we like to say that we have discovered that God invented money so those who have it can help others.

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.

In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.