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It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), Chapter 102, “Al Capp” (p. 311)
- Politics
This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902“Our Duty to the Masses”, letter to the Maharaja of Mysore (23 June 1894), Complete Works, vol. 4
- Life & Death
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
John Calvin1509–1564Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551), Page 35.
The best philanthropy is anonymous charity.
Gene Simmonsborn 1949Interview with Radio.com (July 6, 2016)
I don’t think that there’s anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It’s the other attitude that confuses me.
Paul Newman1925–2008When asked “Is charity your responsibility as a celebrity?” in “Paul Newman’s Road To Glory” interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (1 July 2002)
If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
Bo Burnhamborn 1990Words Words Words (2010)
- Comedy
To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020About her legacy. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Life & Death
With malice toward none, with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
- Forgiveness
- War & Peace
But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.
Jesus7 BC–AD 30The Sermon on the Mount
Compassion is the work of a nation, not just a government.
George W. Bushborn 1946George W. Bush’s First Inaugural Address (2001)
- Government
There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane Austen1775–1817Emma (1815), Volume I, Chapter XIIn context
- Character
If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIn context
- Business
Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Life & Death
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Education