Dante Alighieri Quotes

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

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.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

For over 35 years, I've been making charitable donations anonymously.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

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

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

Charity is important; so is being fair and honest and honorable in your business - but you cannot mix the two.

The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.

Investments are a real partnership, with an expected return; donations are a gesture made as a result of ethical, religious, or political passions.

I've given away tens of millions of dollars over the years - probably to almost every charity in Australia.

Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

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.

Although I was aware they were illegal. We had become somewhat inured to using some activities that would help us in accomplishing what we thought was a legitimate cause

Doing Good Is My Religion

The Hebrew word “tzedakah” … is translated as “charity” but … comes from the same root as the word for “justice”.

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.