(53 quotes found)
“Philanthropy seems to me to have become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.”
Miriam Beard
“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.
“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 the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.”
“Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A lot of the old philanthropy was devoted to helping schools do what they were already doing, ... The new group is saying, 'Let's try something different.' It's a lot of young, active entrepreneurial people - Bill Gates, Eli Broad, the Waltons, Dell, Milken - who want to change the schools, who want to use their money to support specific school reforms.”
Richard Lee
“We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
