"I think it would be fair and..." - Quote by George Carlin
I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school.
More by George Carlin
“Some people think of the glass as half full. Some people think of the glass as half empty. I think of the glass as too big.”
“Electricity is really just organized lightning.”
“All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.”
More on Philanthropy
“I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.”
“Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.”
“The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine.”