Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
As a class, Jews give three times as much money to charity as anybody else, but they feel guilty about their wealth anyway. They simply can't accept the idea of ever being Republicans.
There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.