Charity Quotations | Page 3

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

Charity, vertical, humiliates. Solidarity, horizontal, helps.

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

He came to a charity gala and supported my charity, Happy Hearts Fund, and still supports it. We have become good friends, but that is it.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.