The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is — Jean Baptiste Massillon
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity. — Blaise Pascal
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. — Emanuel Swedenborg
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. — Henry Fielding
You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word — Joanna Lumley
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. — John Davison Rockefeller
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. — Henry Ford
