Giving Money Quotes - Page 2

• Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures.

  DeWitt Wallace

  Waste, Form, Institutions

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• I really hope that the philanthropy movement is seen not just as wealthy people giving money away but wealthy people giving away their time, their energy and their ideas.

  David Rubenstein

  Ideas, People, Energy

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• The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that.

  Robertson Davies

  Government, People, Historical

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

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• I believe in taking care of myself and teaching other people who want to learn. I don't believe in just printing money and giving money. I'm willing to teach those who are willing to learn. If you're not willing to learn, then go vote for Obama. I'm not Republican or Democrat, so don't get me wrong.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Believe, Teaching, Printing Money

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• Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.

  William Saroyan

  Cancer, Believe, Cutting

  William Saroyan (1968). “I used to believe I had forever, now I'm not so sure”

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• [Hillary Clinton] is giving money to N.I.M.H. [National Institute for Mental Health] ultimately to conduct more experiments on two- to four-year-olds. What they're going to do is conduct a lot of clinical studies which actually drug two- to four-year-olds.

  Peter Breggin

  Years, Two, Drug

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• And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Real, Believe

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• Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

  Will Rogers

  College, Race, Years

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• Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

  Elayne Boosler

  Hiv, Television, Aids

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• When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing.

  Penn Jillette

  Buying Something, Bills, Window

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.

  David Rubenstein

  Views, Trying, Republican

  "The Billionaires’ Loophole" by Alec MacGillis, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2016.

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• When we gather for worship, whether with a handful in a storefront chapel or with thousands in St. Peter's Square, we perform a drama with different parts-speaking and singing and praying and giving money and baptizing and eating bread and drinking wine-all for the delight of God.

  David Jeremiah

  Drama, Drinking, Wine

  Dr. David Jeremiah (2013). “Prayer, the Great Adventure”, p.92, Multnomah

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• Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

  Naveen Jain

  Writing, Ideas, Calling

  "An Entrepreneurial Perspective on Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2016.

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• I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

  Richard Eyre

  Art, People, Educate

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• We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good.

  Gary L. Francione

  Writing, Animal, Numbers

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• If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Eye, Squirrels

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

  A. P. Herbert

  Money, War, Silly

  1931 'Too Much!'.

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• The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week.

  Phil Gramm

  Cutting, Reality, People

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• I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people taking healthcare from the government, but I don't think government should give it.

  Chester Brown

  Artist, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.

  Jake Heggie

  Believe, Passion, Emotional

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The best philanthropy is not just about giving money but giving leadership. The best philanthropists bring the gifts that made them successful-the drive, the determination, the refusal to accept that something can't be done if it needs to be into their philanthropy.

  Tony Blair

  Determination, Successful, Needs

  "Treasury reveals how little tax the super-rich pay" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2012.

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• Bill and Hillary Clinton are married, so under the law, paying him for a speech is like giving money directly to her [Hillary Clinton] - to the Secretary of State. I cannot think of a comparable 'pay to play' scandal.

  Tom Fitton

  Thinking, Law, Play

  "Medical Bill: Mystery donor picked up $150G tab for 2010 Clinton speech" by Malia Zimmerman, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2015.

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• The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Church, Doctrine

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• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

  A. P. Herbert

  Business, Government, Might

  1931 'Too Much!'.

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• One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.

  Peter Drucker

  Work, Greatness, People

  "New Priorities" by Peter Drucker, www.context.org. Summer 1992.

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