"Charity degrades those who receive it and..." - Quote by George Sand
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
More by George Sand
“Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.”
“I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.”
“Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.”
More on Charity
“That's the trouble with our charities; we are always saving somebody away off, when the fellow next to us ain't eating.”
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”
“Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.”
More on Morality
“It’s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! It’s wrong in America, it’s wrong in Germany, it’s wrong in Russia, it’s wrong in China! It was wrong in two thousand B.C., and it’s wrong in nineteen fifty-four A.D.! It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong!”
“There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.”
“If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.”