Philanthropy Quotations

I regard philanthropy as a tragic apology for wrong conditions under which human beings live ...

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

Kindness is always fashionable.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.