Power engenders the evil-minded who ill-treat the needy in all parts of the world.
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Sylvia Iparraguirre
Men think it is philanthropy to give away sex.
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Girdhar Joshi
All that work: his generous patronage of the arts, the vast sums of money he had donated to worthy causes, setting up charitable organizations. for what? In the end, none of those good works had redeemed him in the eyes of others. People think that...
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Carmen Posadas
Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Steal the hog and give the feet for alms.
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George Edward Herbert
More Quotes By Horace Mann
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery... It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor.
