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In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. -- Clay Aiken
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. -- Paul Samuelson
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself. -- Billy Joel
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for. -- Lamar Alexander
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.' -- Joseph Addison
Great ideas are not charitable. -- Henry de Montherlant
I'm forming a charitable institution for education. -- Amar Bose
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous. -- Thomas Browne
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. -- Joseph Joubert
Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic. -- David Rockefeller
Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970. -- Jeff Henderson
Charitable involvement, social impact, and global responsibility have always been important at Bain Capital. -- Joshua Bekenstein
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. -- Ronald Reagan
Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth. -- Mark Twain
Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want. -- Myrtle Reed
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. -- Francis Bacon
The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity. -- Billy Graham
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. -- Maxim Gorky
For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs. -- Mel Carnahan
Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable. -- Glenn Beck
My own heart let me more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad. -- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. -- Isaac Barrow
There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet. -- Mitchell Baker
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
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -- Mark Twain
I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters -- Art Linkletter
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. -- Bill Moyers
Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status. -- Richard Dawkins
Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose. -- George Kaiser
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. -- Charles Williams
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. -- Orison Swett Marden
Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care of the poor cannot be separated from the worship of God. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies. -- Ban Ki-moon
The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives. -- Brandy Norwood
My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It's something I hope that I've become a role model for my children. -- Steve Tisch
There are some terrorist organizations, there are some organized crime organizations, that launder money through charities and make donations to charities. That's not the purpose of charitable donations in Canada, so we're becoming increasingly strict on the subject. -- Jim Flaherty
What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. -- Stephen King
I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart. -- Jason Derulo
As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can. -- Tracy Chapman
Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes up early, works all day, believes in charitable work, business-minded, diligent, accountable, problem-solving... I'm so much about school, consistency and tradition. -- Drew Barrymore
I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters. -- Art Linkletter
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Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. -- Noam Chomsky
Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers. -- James Buchan
The fundamental flaw in Social Security and Medicare is that they violate the 'welfare principle' in economics. The welfare principle forms the fundamental basis of all charitable work in churches and other private organizations: assist those who need help, and equally important, don't assist individuals who can take care of themselves. -- Mark Skousen
If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret. -- Elizabeth Warren
Generosity is more charitable than wealth. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself -- Joseph Joubert
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence. -- Samuel Beckett
For over 35 years, I've been making charitable donations anonymously. -- Jerry Perenchio
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable. -- Thomas Browne
Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more. -- Confucius
I think, charitable foundations are, in general, a good thing. -- Jill Stein
Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature -- Larry Wall
My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable. -- Mason Cooley
For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities... -- Leroy Hood
A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I think what I really want to do [is] do something charitable. -- Ansel Elgort
Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable. -- Albert Camus
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free. -- Robert Breault
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The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window. -- John Ray
An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable. -- Swami Vivekananda
I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities. -- Jennie Garth
Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do. -- Jamie Lee Curtis
Less than ten cents on the dollar in the Clinton Foundation has gone to charitable causes. -- Mike Pence
It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need. -- Shannon L. Alder
I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot; -- Jamie Lee Curtis
My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School. -- Thomas Peterffy
The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war. -- William Shakespeare
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. -- Charles Dickens
Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity. -- David Rockefeller
The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing. -- Bruce Cockburn
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven. -- Henry Ward Beecher
In the charitable world as in the business world, opportunities should drive budgets, not the other way around. -- George Kaiser
The Trump Foundation is a private-family foundation. They give virtually every cent in the Trump Foundation to charitable causes. -- Mike Pence
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. -- James Cook
There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them. -- C. S. Lewis
We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions. -- Robert L. Payton
If you compare charitable donations, you name it, religious tithing, giving, Americans trump citizens of the world hands down. -- Rush Limbaugh
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them. -- Robert Reich
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man. -- J. C. Ryle
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy. -- Emile Zola
I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft. -- Maria Semple
Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s) -- Tony Elumelu
Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. -- Francois Fenelon
I mean, I think it would humanize Hillary [Clinton] incredibly to detail how she was involved in the family charitable organization. -- Rush Limbaugh
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Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. -- Dante Alighieri
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. -- August Strindberg
Family the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. -- August Strindberg
There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in. -- Johnny Evers
We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need. -- Dalai Lama
There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity. -- David Beckham
Companies are not charitable enterprises They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does -- Paul A. Samuelson
He makes a beggar first that first relieves him; Not us'rers make more beggars where they live Than charitable men that use to give. -- John Heywood
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry. -- Goldie
There's real evidence that getting involved in charitable activity (and it's probably better to give your time and effort, rather than money) makes people happier. -- Peter Kinderman
I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things. -- Natalie Dormer
I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black. -- E. W. Howe
You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms. -- Tariq Ramadan
Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable. -- Vincent de Paul
Christmas is a glorious time of the year, simple in origin, deep in meaning, beautiful in tradition and custom, rich in memories, and charitable in spirit. -- Thomas S. Monson
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
No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable. -- Thomas Sprat
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees. -- Chuck Grassley
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. -- Mark Twain
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human intelligence was more trouble than it was worth. It was more destructive than creative, more confusing than revealing, more discouraging than satisfying, more spiteful than charitable. -- Michael Crichton
Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so. -- Peter Diamandis
I really don't need the public's money. I'd like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free. -- Elton John
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying." -- Mark Twain
The wealthy are generally impressed with an idea, that they shall never stand in need of public charitable relief; but a little less confidence would become them better. -- Jean-Baptiste Say
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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