Top 100 Quotes About Philanthropy
#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
#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
#3. Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.
Sholem Asch
#4. Philanthropy simply means love of what it means to be human.
Valaida Fullwood
#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
#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
#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
#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
#9. Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.
Jeffrey Rasley
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#20. Still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.
Charles Dickens
#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
#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
#23. Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
Mary Livermore
#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
#25. Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
Oscar Wilde
#26. Michael Porter said that "corporations can use philanthropy to improve their competitive context
Anonymous
#27. Don't just think, do.
Horace
#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
#29. You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.
Azim Premji
#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
#31. Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
Michael Porter
#33. The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.
Frederic Bastiat
#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
#35. I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.
Pierre Omidyar
#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
#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
#38. The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
Calvin Coolidge
#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
#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
#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
#42. I don't wish to be successful but I definitely wish to be successful in helping someone, sometime for something good.
Manasa Rao
#43. I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.
Sakip Sabanci
#45. We must turn our attention to the exquisite art of Corporate Philanthropy.
Anonymous
#46. The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
Carlos Fuentes
#47. Don't just put it off and think about it!
Horace
#48. The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#56. Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
Bill Gates
#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
#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
#59. The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
Ted Turner
#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
#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
#62. Philanthropy isn't just about big gifts; it's about participation. It is about the grace that comes from working together.
Marc Benioff
#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
#65. The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.
Hugh Reginald Haweis
#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
#67. Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#68. 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
#69. I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.
Blake Mycoskie
#70. When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#71. I hymn and bless Your uncountable compassion and philanthropy, as You desired to number me with Your chosen servants. Look down, now, upon me the lowly one, O God and Master, Lord of mercy, Ruler of all and All-powerful One, hearken to my prayer, and fulfill my entreaties in praise.
Marina Of Aguas Santas
#72. Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
William Penn
#73. The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.
Susan Hill
#74. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
David Rockefeller
#75. Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
Manoj Bhargava
#76. So while the book Giving Back serves as a moving tribute, "The Soul of Philanthropy" exhibit and its programs are meant to compel us toward a triumphant movement of conscious giving for social change.
Valaida Fullwood
#77. No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.
James Russell Lowell
#78. Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service.
Robert L. Payton
#79. Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.
James Weldon Johnson
#80. 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
#81. Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.
Will.i.am
#82. He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
Aristotle.
#83. Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
Naveen Jain
#84. The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
Andrew Forrest
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!
Amitabh Bachchan
#91. Pure philanthropy is very well in its way but philanthropy plus five percent is a good deal better.
Cecil Rhodes
#92. With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.
Kavita Ramdas
#93. Almost all philanthropy is by definition undemocratic, its priorities set by wealthy donors and boards of trustees, who by extension can shape the direction of public policy in faraway communities.
Dale Russakoff
#94. Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left.
Peter Buffett
#95. World Humanitarian Day - 2015 And millions of stars, they fell glittering like diamonds from the sky, that night, where philanthropy was born in the world.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#96. To have people from every continent who are working on philanthropy, on social entrepreneurship, gives me a unique opportunity to engage.
Darren Walker
#97. Philanthropy is fun and fulfilling.
Bill Gates
#98. Large-scale philanthropy, based in the private - not the public - sector, is a relatively recent historical development.
Peter Diamandis
#99. On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing
the list so I can milk it.
Warren Buffett
#100. The responsibility of philanthropy rests with us. The wealthier we are, the more powerful we get. We cannot put the entire onus on the government.
Azim Premji
