Amanda Palmer Quotes

If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world (James 2:14-26).

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

People who give will never be poor.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

I've always been generous and like giving to charities and people in need.

Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you say, "O Lord, let the world be full of charitable people!" - you mean, let the world be full of beggars also. Let the world be full of good works - let the world be full of misery. This is out-and-out slavishness!

It's such a great feeling being able to play shows for a great cause to help people in need. If we all try to help one another the world will be a much better place.

I refuse to charge for my karate classes, I refuse to charge for Q&A panels, and when people come to my table, if you have money, great, but if you don't, who cares?

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

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

Those of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back. Whether one gives a lot as one goes along as I do or a little and then a lot [when one dies] as Warrendoes is a matter of personal preference. I would hate to have people ask me for money all day long.

I gave away a lot of works for benefits and then people would also give me back.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

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

In my experience, people who are truly compassionate rarely use the word "compassion." Those who do talk compassion generally intend to be compassionate with your money, not their own. It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that 'compassion'.

Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

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.

People don't need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don't, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth's greatest luxuries.