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O believing women! Let none of you despise giving to her neighbour even if it is only a roasted sheep’s trotter.
MMuhammad571–632Sunni Hadith
The upper hand is better than the lower hand. The upper hand is the one which spends and the lower is the beggar’s.
MMuhammad571–632Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 531
Apparently, a concern for others is self-love at its least attractive, while greed is now a sign of the higher altruism.
Gore Vidal1925–2012Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 24
- Money
Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can.
Peter Singerborn 1946The Most Good You Can Do (2015), Preface, p. vii
- Morality
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 30.
Assist a man in raising a burden; but do not assist him in laying it down.
Pythagoras583–491 BCSymbol 11
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams1744–1818Letter to John Thaxter (29 September 1778)
Charity is the great channel through which God passes all his mercy upon mankind.
Jeremy Taylor1613–1667Holy Dying (1651), chapter 2, section 3.
- God
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city’s disinherited.
Jane Addams1860–1935Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 14
The water which has been refused to the cry of the weary and dying is unholy, though it had been blessed by every saint in heaven.
John Ruskin1819–1900The King of the Golden River (1841), Ch. 5
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?
Mother Teresa1910–1997Statement of 1977, as quoted in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2011) by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373
- God
We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
- Morality
Men of all countries are brothers, and the different peoples should help one another according to their ability like citizens of the same state.
Maximilien Robespierre1758–1794Proposed Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, speech to the National Convention (24 April 1793)
- Politics
Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 164
- Advice
It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990), “A Talk to Western Buddhists” p. 89