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Charity is murder and you know it.

—Dorothy Parker, 1956

Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.

—G.K. Chesterton, 1932

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

—Ralph Nader, 2000

They say that gifts persuade even the gods. 

—Euripides, 431 BC

Without virtue, both riches and honor, to me, seem like the passing cloud.

—Confucius, c. 350 BC

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

—Maya Angelou, 1993

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.

—Eva Perón, 1949

The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.

—Molière, 1666

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

—Mark Twain, 1894

Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.

—Jules Renard, 1898

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

—Alexander Pope, 1738

I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.

—Antonio Porchia, 1943

Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.

—Albert Camus, 1956