15 quotes found
“Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world.”
“Men think it is philanthropy to give away sex.”
“All that work: his generous patronage of the arts, the vast sums of money he had donated to worthy causes, setting up charitable organizations . . . for what? In the end, none of those good works h...”
“Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.”
“Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.”
“Steal the hog and give the feet for alms.”
“I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame.”
“To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.”
“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them.”
“When thou doest alms let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.”
