Top 100 Philanthropy's Quotes

#1. We have so many rich people in Switzerland. They should take more responsibility for the general public. There is almost no tradition of philanthropy here anymore, unlike in the U.S.

Hansjorg Wyss

Philanthropy's Quotes #35077
#2. I do not want to live under a philanthropy. I do not want to be taken care of by the government ... We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government.

Woodrow Wilson

Philanthropy's Quotes #35326
#3. Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

Sholem Asch

Philanthropy's Quotes #38815
#4. Philanthropy simply means love of what it means to be human.

Valaida Fullwood

Philanthropy's Quotes #39587
#5. If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.

Frederic Bastiat

Philanthropy's Quotes #54664
#6. There's a dark underside to philanthropy. People who give a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The emperor cannot be shown to have no clothes.

Michael Eric Dyson

Philanthropy's Quotes #64595
#7. There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.

Ravida Din

Philanthropy's Quotes #65689
#8. It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the U.S., quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.

Geoff Mulgan

Philanthropy's Quotes #66784
#9. Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

Jeffrey Rasley

Philanthropy's Quotes #84738
#10. There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.

Eva Longoria

Philanthropy's Quotes #91771
#11. Philanthropy requires thought, action, and passion.

Robert L. Payton

Philanthropy's Quotes #102075
#12. I long to see a radical shift in philanthropy that will come to characterize the 21st century. That is, a reclaiming of the root meaning of philanthropy: love of what it means to human.

Valaida Fullwood

Philanthropy's Quotes #116963
#13. I have often spoken about the importance of intentionality in philanthropy: that it has to stir the soul. This is true whether you are feeding the homeless, mentoring a child or working on climate change.

Charles Bronfman

Philanthropy's Quotes #117416
#14. It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

G.K. Chesterton

Philanthropy's Quotes #119247
#15. All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

Ellen Key

Philanthropy's Quotes #120999
#16. Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

David Rockefeller

Philanthropy's Quotes #143820
#17. If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there.

Bill Gates

Philanthropy's Quotes #148042
#18. 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.

Bill Gates

Philanthropy's Quotes #157127
#19. As the leaves of trees are said to absorb all noxious qualities of the air, and to breathe forth a purer atmosphere, so it seems to me as if they drew from us all sordid and angry passions, and breathed forth peace and philanthropy.

Washington Irving

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#20. Still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

Charles Dickens

Philanthropy's Quotes #168525
#21. Philanthropy is an important subject of liberal education because it examines the role of good works in shaping our conceptions of the good society and the good life.

Robert L. Payton

Philanthropy's Quotes #172519
#22. The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.

Ann Cotton

Philanthropy's Quotes #175171
#23. Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

Mary Livermore

Philanthropy's Quotes #196347
#24. We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Philanthropy's Quotes #197158
#25. Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

Oscar Wilde

Philanthropy's Quotes #197518
#26. Michael Porter said that "corporations can use philanthropy to improve their competitive context

Anonymous

Philanthropy's Quotes #198159
#27. Don't just think, do.

Horace

Philanthropy's Quotes #200534
#28. 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.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Philanthropy's Quotes #207602
#29. You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Azim Premji

Philanthropy's Quotes #211142
#30. 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.

Peter B. Lewis

Philanthropy's Quotes #229331
#31. Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

Michael Porter

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#32. the inducements of philanthropy to those of patriotism,

Alexander Hamilton

Philanthropy's Quotes #242356
#33. The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

Frederic Bastiat

Philanthropy's Quotes #246958
#34. I realize there are few sectors that can do what philanthropy does, which is look at big problems, take a long term view, try to develop strategies for addressing the root causes and then go about solving them.

Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey

Philanthropy's Quotes #249940
#35. I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

Pierre Omidyar

Philanthropy's Quotes #253965
#36. private philanthropy is no substitution for hard-fought battles over labour laws and social security, in part because philanthropy can be retracted on a whim, while elected officials, at least in theory, have citizens to answer to.

Linsey McGoey

Philanthropy's Quotes #260638
#37. To insure the continuity of philanthropy, we must instill in kids the values and attitudes that will enable them to see charity as a vital part of their lives.

Mary Leonard

Philanthropy's Quotes #282292
#38. The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Calvin Coolidge

Philanthropy's Quotes #297979
#39. Philanthropy is the duty of how we should behave when things go wrong for people, and how we can help to make things better for everyone - voluntarily, without being required to do it by the government, and for others, without private gain for ourselves.

Robert L. Payton

Philanthropy's Quotes #303942
#40. It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much money in his pockets. Sometimes it seemed like he stole money from one place just to give it away somewhere else.

Dennis Lehane

Philanthropy's Quotes #314085
#41. I feel that India lacks a level of philanthropy that is proportional to the wealth that is here, particularly among the top 5,000 industrialists and entrepreneurs.

Romesh Wadhwani

Philanthropy's Quotes #327598
#42. I don't wish to be successful but I definitely wish to be successful in helping someone, sometime for something good.

Manasa Rao

Philanthropy's Quotes #330599
#43. I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

Sakip Sabanci

Philanthropy's Quotes #339698
#44. Rather than being a human, be a humanitarian

Kowtham Kumar K

Philanthropy's Quotes #342113
#45. We must turn our attention to the exquisite art of Corporate Philanthropy.

Anonymous

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#46. The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

Carlos Fuentes

Philanthropy's Quotes #362164
#47. Don't just put it off and think about it!

Horace

Philanthropy's Quotes #364592
#48. The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Philanthropy's Quotes #367295
#49. Philanthropy is activism.

Eli Broad

Philanthropy's Quotes #399437
#50. Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Philanthropy's Quotes #401265
#51. In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.

Jeff Raikes

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#52. Philanthropy is loving, and ameliorative, revolutionary; it wakens lofty desires, new possibilities, achievements, and energies; ... it touches thought to spiritual issues, systematizes action, and insures success.

Mary Baker Eddy

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#53. My philanthropy is no relation to anybody else's. None. My philanthropy and what we do at the foundation speaks for itself and has no relation to anyone's.

Jon Bon Jovi

Philanthropy's Quotes #426318
#54. All the family money is for philanthropy, except for living expenses for my mother. She is 94 and isn't a big spender.

Ronnie Chan

Philanthropy's Quotes #429750
#55. Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

Sathya Sai Baba

Philanthropy's Quotes #439933
#56. Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Bill Gates

Philanthropy's Quotes #444362
#57. It's like saying to a drowning man: What a pity, what a pity! If you had only let me teach you how to swim! Everybody wants to right the world, nobody wants help his neighbor. They want to make a man of you without taking your body into consideration. It's all cockeyed.

Henry Miller

Philanthropy's Quotes #445780
#58. He was a simple honest man. He never strayed,
He never drank, he never smoked, and he never kissed a maid.
And when he passed away his insurance was denied,
Because he never lived, they claimed he never died.

Ted Gup

Philanthropy's Quotes #445838
#59. The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

Ted Turner

Philanthropy's Quotes #445969
#60. I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

Paul Newman

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#61. Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.

Henry David Thoreau

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#62. Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together.

Marc Benioff

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#63. There isn't any question that Hollywood is profit driven. Anybody that thinks it isn't is a fool. It's a business. Hollywood was never philanthropy. The only purpose it had was making money; the only purpose it still has is to make money.

Sydney Pollack

Philanthropy's Quotes #501668
#64. One of my goals is to reinvent philanthropy.

Peter Diamandis

Philanthropy's Quotes #515253
#65. The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

Philanthropy's Quotes #534087
#66. There's a lot of complacency in philanthropy. People figure organizations are trying to do good, and that's enough, even if the results aren't there. But that's wasteful and inefficient. It crowds out better programs.

Dustin Moskovitz

Philanthropy's Quotes #543833
#67. What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

Linsey McGoey

Philanthropy's Quotes #546793
#68. I think the tradition of philanthropy is far better developed in the U.S. than in India, as is the whole notion of giving away 50% of your wealth while you are still living and not waiting till you're gone.

Romesh Wadhwani

Philanthropy's Quotes #636993
#69. Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

Melinda Gates

Philanthropy's Quotes #669783
#70. There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.

Charlie Rose

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#71. I'm on a lot of nonprofit boards, but if I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't do it. I haven't yet done anything that's transformational in philanthropy. But I hope at some point to target two or three causes or organizations and really make transformational gifts.

David Rubenstein

Philanthropy's Quotes #690802
#72. A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover's world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian's world revolves around the world.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Philanthropy's Quotes #690813
#73. As a father, he was generous. More or less. The "less" was because he never gave me what I wanted. He gave me only what he wanted me to have. I found this was often true with philanthropy and with love. The giver's desire and fulfillment played an important role.

Monique Truong

Philanthropy's Quotes #757404
#74. Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.

Kaye Ballard

Philanthropy's Quotes #759215
#75. It's important to do see the results of your philanthropy while you are alive.

Husnu Ozyegin

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#76. It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life,

Ben Affleck

Philanthropy's Quotes #844275
#77. Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

C.S. Lewis

Philanthropy's Quotes #864374
#78. This was the invention of modern American philanthropy as we know it. The idea of systematizing giving to achieve human progress was the true innovation of John D. Rockefeller, and ultimately the Rockefeller Foundation's legacy.

Judith Rodin

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#79. Philanthropy, like Red Cross voluntarism, is realizing the enhancing influence of cultural diversity. Inviting the full participation of all the community's resources leads to win-win situations.

Gwen Jackson

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#80. It's philanthropy, but it's good politics, too. Mighty good politics. The poor are some of the most grateful people in the world. George Washington Plunkett.

H.W. Brands

Philanthropy's Quotes #961136
#81. It's very difficult to be continuously charitable in a capitalistic society. You've also got to make sure that you can pay everyone who works for you.

Felix Dennis

Philanthropy's Quotes #984627
#82. The word 'philanthropy' brings up an image of somebody who's had an illustrious career, has retired and is giving to highly established institutions that may or may not have ivy growing up their walls. I personally have felt the need to give philanthropy a reboot

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Philanthropy's Quotes #1039977
#83. I think Christians should be leaders in art, science, philanthropy, charity, and all kinds of good works. We should be good examples for everyone. Unfortunately though, that's not often the case.

Matt Smith

Philanthropy's Quotes #1050031
#84. In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous.

John Paul DeJoria

Philanthropy's Quotes #1131276
#85. I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

Carlos Slim

Philanthropy's Quotes #1143646
#86. Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Melinda Gates

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#87. The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul ... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

Maya Angelou

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#88. Here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale.

Bill Gates

Philanthropy's Quotes #1255926
#89. It's important to think good, speak good, and do good. If we want to see positive change in the world, then we need to connect to goodness. I try in everything I do, both in business and philanthropy, to make a positive change and do that by doing good.

Shari Arison

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#90. It's a mission for me to make sure that philanthropy doesn't feel like a vintage hand-me-down from mom or dad. I want people to feel compelled to do something positive because they just love it, they're excited about it, and it's cool.

Usher

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#91. At the end of my journey, I see myself as a Rocket. That's where I ended my career, and also the organization that did so much for me. They knew I had a vision, and I went to work for the owner, who's a man who believes in philanthropy and believed in me as a player.

Dikembe Mutombo

Philanthropy's Quotes #1465670
#92. Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Sacks

Philanthropy's Quotes #1477891
#93. There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Philanthropy's Quotes #1597361
#94. I've never been one who enjoys maintaining the status quo. I'm always pushing for new ideas, whether it's in business or philanthropy.

Eli Broad

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#95. I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.

Lee Iacocca

Philanthropy's Quotes #1647399
#96. CHAPTER XVI MR. GOTOBED'S PHILANTHROPY

Anthony Trollope

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#97. I never thought I would be in a position like this, where my words and experiences are now inspiring others to follow suit. It's challenging at times, but I can only look forward to the future of business and philanthropy.

Blake Mycoskie

Philanthropy's Quotes #1671962
#98. Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

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#99. I think it's important that we give back to society and our fellow man regardless of our professions. We all need help at times. And when we support each other, we're all a little stronger.

Rhonda Hopkins

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#100. Both my book Giving Back and The Soul of Philanthropy exhibit are borne of the idea that philanthropy is deeper than your pockets. In fact, the most potent philanthropy is derived from what's within your hands, your heart, your head and your soul.

Valaida Fullwood

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