Philanthropy Quotes - Page 9

• Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Long, Activism, Remains

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.61, Open Road Media

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• The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Principles, Charity, Firsts

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• The age looks steadily to the redressing of wrong, to the righting of every form of error and injustice; and a tireless and prying philanthropy, which is almost omniscient, is one of the most hopeful characteristics of the time.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Errors, Hopeful, Age

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• Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?

  Colin Powell

  Helping Others, Everyday Problems, Ties

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• I used to be opposed to the idea of social entrepreneurship. I said, you know, let business be business, and philanthropy be philanthropy. Keep the two separate, don't mix it up, and this is what I did, and I did that rather successfully, but I now recognize that actually you do need to mix it up and I think there is room for social entrepreneurship.

  George Soros

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Interview with Mark Schapiro, September 5, 2000.

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• The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Together, Forgotten

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.107, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Giving, Self Reliance, Helping

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• I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present.

  Kofi Annan

  Past, Celebrate, Refugee

  Twitter post from Feb 01, 2017

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• A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy.

  John Irving

  Motivation, Stronger, Injustice

  John Irving (2012). “A Son Of The Circus”, p.103, Random House

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• Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

  James Cook

  Generosity, Giving, Done

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• Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.

  George Washington

  Stars, Order, Principles

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• Businesses must reconnect company success with social progress. Shared value is not social responsibility, philanthropy, or even sustainability, but a new way to achieve economic success. It is not on the margin of what companies do but at the center. We believe that it can give rise to the next major transformation of business thinking.

  Michael Porter

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "The Big Idea: Creating Shared Value" by Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2011.

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• A man should make all he can, and give all he
  can.

  Nelson Rockefeller

  Men, Giving, Should

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• Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Commitment, Community, Together

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• That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mediocrity, Charity, Selflessness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, Reality, Oneness

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• What does the world need that you can provide?”
Express your social mission, whether it’s cause marketing, volunteering, culture, environmental initiatives, sustainable products, or corporate philanthropy
Start before scale: make a commitment, take small steps and then scale when you’re ready
Internalize and share your social mission
Be unfailingly transparent – “If you’re not scared by what you’re saying, you’re not sharing enough

  Jeffrey Hollender

  Commitment, Volunteer, Marketing

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• Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Brother, Growing Up

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• I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Income, Purpose

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.91, Modern Library

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• Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.

  Albert Camus

  Challenges, Age, Peculiar

  Albert Camus (1965). “Caligula and Cross purpose”

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• 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

  Government, East, Tiny

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Charity, Firsts, Selflessness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Self, Expression

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• There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Humility, Charity

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