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We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.
Sep 10, 2025
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
Don't just put it off and think about it!
We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.
I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it.
I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.
I'm very involved in my business and with my family and my friends. I don't play the social world very much, and not to promote my product. I do it for the philanthropic problems because there I feel that I'm making a difference, and that I'm helping. So I do it in a soulful way.
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.
New York is a great place to be if you want to make an impact and be involved in charities or philanthropic organizations like my wife and I are.
For me, philanthropic return on investment is about making the biggest impact possible on fellow human beings, regardless of country, race or religion.
With a generation of younger folks who have thrived on the success of their companies, there is a big opportunity for many of us to give back earlier in our lifetime and see the impact of our philanthropic efforts.
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
People can make symbolic gestures but doesn't mean their life changes. One philanthropic moment doesn't make a life of renewal; of change.
I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.
Generosity is the flower of justice.
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its purpose is to protect persons and property.... If you exceed this proper limit -- if you attempt to make the law religious, fraternal, equalizing, philanthropic, industrial, or artistic -- you will then be lost in uncharted territory, in vagueness and uncertainty, in a forced utopia or, even worse, in a multitude of utopias, each striving to seize the law and impose it on you.
The main thing is to be philanthropic in your everyday life. You don't have to have money to do that. You can do it with your time and your energy.
We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.
It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
It is unlikely that many people will take to heart the conclusion that coming into existence is always a harm. It is even less likely that many people will stop having children. By contrast, it is quite likely that my views either will be ignored or will be dismissed. As this response will account for a great deal of suffering between now and the demise of humanity, it cannot plausibly be thought of as philanthropic. That is not to say that it is motivated by any malice towards humans, but it does result from a self-deceptive indifference to the harm of coming into existence.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
I was the Chair of the WIFF Foundation, which is the philanthropic arm of Women In Film. The foundation runs the several programs including one that provide our film finishing fund. So we help women complete their films with a grant from Netflix. It's great to be associated with award winning films like 'Freeheld' and 'Circumstance'.
Give something back by becoming more
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective...
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
Every woman who has any margin of time or money to spare should adopt some one public interest, some philanthropic undertaking,or some social agitation of reform, and give to that cause whatever time and work she may be able to afford.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.