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  • Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we'd want to get involved.

  • Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.231, Princeton University Press
  • Don't let people tell you to do it this way. You are on the verge of figuring out hybrid models -- with companies and nonprofits, markets, government, crowd-sourced philanthropy. The capitalist system as we know it is not working.

  • The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

    Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122
  • ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

    Distance   Men   Squares  
    George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.255, Penguin
  • When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

  • Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land.

    Thomas Gray (1828). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.64
  • Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay. The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.

    "The English Constitution". Book by Walter Bagehot, Seventh edition. Chapter 5: "The House of Commons", p. 137, en.wikisource.org. 1894.
  • True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

    Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”
  • With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.

    "Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg signs up for Giving Pledge" by Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.
  • It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

    Homer (1811). “The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope”, p.274
  • We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

  • A man may be a Bah' in name only. If he is a Bah' in reality, his deeds and actions will be decisive proofs of it. What are the requirements? Love for mankind, sincerity toward all, reflecting the oneness of the world of humanity, philanthropy, becoming enkindled with the fire of the love of God, attainment to the knowledge of God and that which is conducive to human welfare.

    Men   Reality   Oneness  
  • My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me.

    Michael Bloomberg's Slate 60 Dinner Keynote Address At William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas, www1.nyc.gov. November 12, 2006.
  • If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

    Sacrifice   Church   Doe  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation
  • We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

  • Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

    'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)
  • When we see a special reformer we feel like asking him, What right have you, sir, to your own virtue? Is virtue piecemeal?

  • Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

    "Professor celebrating Barbara Bush’s death deserves to be fired" by Lauren DeBellis Appell, www.foxnews.com.
  • Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

  • If you think of life as like a big pie, you can try to hold the whole pie and kill yourself trying to keep it, or you can slice it up and give some to the people around you, and you still have plenty left for yourself.

    Life   Thinking   Pie  
  • It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

    Bible   Jesus   Blessed  
  • We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.

  • I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

  • Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East.

    Government   East   Tiny  
    Source: uk.businessinsider.com
  • The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is used for anything else, no matter how noble the cause, it becomes perverted and justice is weakened. Thus, the law has become perverted by stupid greed and false philanthropy.

  • Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation.

    Earth   Fruit   Moral  
    Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.40, Orbis Books
  • Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

    Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.49, Courier Corporation
  • Politics is social work with power.

  • Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

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