{"quotes":[{"text":"It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["beggar","begging","conformity","generosity","good-will","human-nature","making-money","money","philanthropy","poverty"],"id":2924,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Steal the hog  and give the feet for alms.","author":"George Edward Herbert","tags":["philanthropy"],"id":13179,"author_id":"George+Edward+Herbert"},{"text":"To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["charity","enlightenment","goodness","guru","help-others","help","helping","humanitarian","humanitarianism","humanity","kind","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","philanthropy","sage","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","virtue"],"id":15343,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"I was eyes to the blind  and feet was I to the lame.","author":"Bible","tags":["philanthropy"],"id":16981,"author_id":"Bible"},{"text":"A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","compassion","compassionate","deep","dictum","dictums","dustbin","dustbins","eat","eating","epigram","epigrams","food","garbage","garbage-can","garbage-cans","gnome","gnomes","hobo","hobos","homeless","humor","humour","insightful","leftovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","meal","meals","philanthropist","philanthropists","philanthropy","pity","poor","portion","poverty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","rich","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerity","sympathetic","sympathy","thought-provoking","thoughtful","trash","trash-can","trash-cans","truly"],"id":26095,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"To us children he (Mr Ewing) was our very own ‘Mr Chips’ and invariably we would each receive half a crown whenever we encountered him on his afternoon walk. If we were particularly lucky, he would send us to the ‘Big House’ for ice-cream – a rare treat in the early 1950s.","author":"Bill Scott","tags":["andrew-ewing","bill-scott","buttercup","buttercup-dairy","buttercup-poultry-farm-park","clermiston","compassion","corstorphine","leith","philanthropist","philanthropy","quotes","scottish","social-history"],"id":33434,"author_id":"Bill+Scott"},{"text":"[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too.","author":"Ellen Cushing","tags":["charity","class","culture","future","noblesse-oblige","obligation","philanthropy","wealth"],"id":51128,"author_id":"Ellen+Cushing"},{"text":"His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.","author":"Fulton J. Sheen","tags":["even-the-least-of-these","good-works","jesus","philanthropy"],"id":52827,"author_id":"Fulton+J.+Sheen"},{"text":"Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately represented by money. The giving of money has thus become our characteristic virtue.But to give is not to do. The money is given in lieu of action, thought, care, time. And it is no remedy for the fragmentation of character and consciousness that is the consequence of specialization. At the simplest, most practical level, it would be difficult for most of us to give enough in donations to good causes to compensate for, much less remedy, the damage done by the money that is taken from us and used destructively by various agencies of the government and by the corporations that hold us in captive dependence on their products. Most important, even if we could give enough to overbalance the official and corporate misuse of our money, we would still not solve the problem: the willingness to be represented by money involves a submission to the modern divisions of character and community. The remedy safeguards the disease.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["aid","culture","donation","institutionalism","money","philanthropy","values"],"id":61721,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences.","author":"Miya Yamanouchi","tags":["caring-for-others","community","contribution","helping-others","humanitarian","humanity","inspirational","inspiring","love","philanthropy","sharing","social-activism"],"id":78147,"author_id":"Miya+Yamanouchi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}