“Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.” — Janet Poppendieck, Sweet Charity?
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“We talk of the debt of gratitude, not of charity, or generosity, nor even of friendship.” — Adam Smith, “Of Justice and Beneficence,” The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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“The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness, than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.” — William Hazlitt, Edinburgh Review, (October 1829)
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“Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.” — Henry George, “How to Help the Unemployed,” The North American Review
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“Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.” — Hugh Kingsmill, The Progress of a Biographer
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“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.” — Hugh Kingsmill, The Progress of a Biographer