Quotes on Philanthropy

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.