Compassionate Assistance Quotes

Concerned in all things for the welfare of all its members, Society undertakes to provide work to the industrious and support for the needy. The ‘willing idle’ shall have no claim on it.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Social service has always been my priority, and I want to help the poor.

We have a thousand points of light for the homeless man. We've got a kinder gentler machine gun hand.

When families are broken, neighbors and caring friends must step in.

In giving of thy alms, inquire not so much into the person, as his necessity. God looks not so much upon the merits of him that requires, as into the manner of him that relieves; if the man deserve not, thou hast given it to humanity.

People need to be fed, medicated, educated, clothed, and sheltered, and if we're compassionate we'll help them, but you get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right. There is great joy in helping people, but no joy in doing it at gunpoint.

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

The relief now given by the Poor Laws is so widely extended that no man of humanity could venture to propose their immediate abolition.

The U.K. alone cannot be left to help those who have lost everything.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

Your success and happiness depend on your willingness to help others solve their problems.

By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and their dignity is destroyed. Is it compassionate to enslave more and more people by making them a part of the government dependency cycle? I think compassion should be measured by how many people no longer need it. Helping people to become self-sufficient is much more compassionate than drugging them with the narcotic of welfare.

My goal after 9/11 was to take care of the families of the people we lost, and that was the most important thing.

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.

What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against.

I want to help people in need, but I don't want people to know I'm doing it.

Government's basic purpose is to allow those blessed with talent to go as far as they can—on their own merits. But ... government also has an obligation to assist those who, for whatever reason, have been left out by fate: the homeless, the infirm, the destitute.

I am a sensitive person, so it is actually saddening to learn that these poverty-stricken families are most of the time mistreated or looked down upon. Help the poor, like how you would want to be helped if you were in their position.

It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?

The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs from the feast. You must take of your substance, and not just of your abundance, in order to help them. And you must treat them like guests at your family table.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.