“Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.”
Oscar Wilde
“Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures”
“We involve people in philanthropy. It can be anybody. Anybody can donate to a fund, or they can create their own fund within the community foundation.”
Elizabeth Henrickson
“The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.”
Miriam Beard
“Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use”
Gamaliel Bailey
“Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.”
Harry Chapin
