Thomas B. Edsall Quotes

Those who are more influential because they have greater share of goods and common services should feel responsible for the weaker and be ready to share with them all they possess

I want to live in a country where we believe in helping each other, where we see where resources are lacking.

Our wealth is rewarded directly in proportion to the number of people with whom we are willing to share.

We have to end the capitalist system. We have to make love our value. You are rich when you love and you are rich when you are giving away your time and what you have to help other people.

There's always a tension between those who would like to garner wealth, and they contribute a lot to society. There's also those who say, 'I believe in the common good. I want that to be enlarged.' They contribute a lot to society. The tension, the debate, between these two views is extremely important to our progress.

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

There are neither mendicants no paupers as long as there are any rich people among them. Their kindness, humanity, and courtesy not only make them liberal with what they have, but cause them to possess hardly anything except in common. A whole village must be without corn before any individual can be obliged to endure privation

Liberals genuinely believe that this country is about helping one another out and doing it for the greater good.

I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.

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.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Anyone who has property that exceed his needs, let him support someone whose property does not (meet his or her needs), and anyone whose food exceeds his needs, let him share it with someone who does not have food.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

The poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.

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

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

A willingness to share our possessions with one another is a very important aspect of true biblical community.

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours.

This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country.

I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.