"There is a class of persons to..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
“England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.”
“We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.”
More on Charity
“Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?”
“Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.”
“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”
More on Society
“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”
“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”
“A right rule for a club would be,-Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic.”