994 Quotes About Charity

So you're Charity?' he asked, trying to ease the tension. Her current behavior was not fitting of the name; her parents must have had less kidnapping-related ambitions for her.

I am bound to say he never gave away any large sums of money to anybody. He is far too high-principled for that!

We have invented the distinction between justice and charity. It is easy to understand why. Our notion of justice dispenses him who possesses from the obligation of giving. If he gives all the same, he thinks he has a right to be pleased with himself.

If we all gave to charity as much as we give to movie theaters on a monthly basis, I believe we could end hunger.

It is not only every man for himself but also every man for some men for himself.

all charity only tends to perpetuate the wretchedness it aims to eradicate

The more he drank the nicer he became; wine revealed his charity.

Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will be naught but a very ancient superstition of the past, how amazed men will be to think that their ancestors were able to endure that religion of torture and nihility!

Good men's actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel's charityIs carefully planned to please.