Adrian Pasdar Quotes

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

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

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

Compassion and mercy are important, period. It doesn't matter who's at our receiving end, but we need to be flexing those muscles. It's not mutually exclusive: If you have compassion for children starving in Africa, it doesn't mean you can't have compassion for adults in Africa or animals that are being tortured and abused.

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.

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

My belief is that people are innately good and innately do want to help their fellow man.

I hate the term 'philanthropist.'

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.

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.

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.'

What you realize when you work in the philanthropic world is that people aren't just numbers: they are families with real needs and you need to make your judgments with kindness and thoughtfulness in order to serve those needs.

His designs are most philanthropic and are amongst the few schemes of the kind … free from any selfish commercial or political object.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Henceforth, as long as l hold this office, I dedicate myself to the supremest welfare of mankind upon earth.

I contend that true Socialism is religion; that honest, fervent politics are religion; that whatever a man will labour for earnestly and in some measure unselfishly is religion

In our culture, the people who have the most respect are not those who have the most material possessions or those who have accomplished the most. It is the people who have helped others the most.

They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the suffering of my fellow creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

I was forced, through seeing the error of their foundation, to abandon all belief in every religion which had been taught to man. But my religious feelings were immediately replaced by the spirit of universal charity — not for a sect, or a party, or for a country or a colour — but for the human race, and with a real and ardent desire to do good.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.

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.

America has a genius for great unselfish deeds, and into the hands of America, God has placed an afflicted mankind.