Evidence Based Charity Quotes & Sayings

Nations have no morals," says Shara, quoting her aunt from memory. "Only interests. — Robert Jackson Bennett

When I was younger, my parents used to say, "Trust us on this. We have more experience than you." And I was like, "Shut up, you don't know anything!" But I was an idiot. They did know more stuff because they'd experienced more things. — Chris Hardwick

Effective altruism is about asking "How can I make the biggest difference I can?" and using evidence and careful reasoning to try to find an answer. It takes a scientific approach to doing good. Just as science consists of the honest and impartial attempt to work out what's true, and a committment to believe the truth whatever that turns out to be. As the phrase suggests, effective altruism consists of the honest and impartial attempt to work out what's best for the world, and a commitment to do what's best, whatever that turns out to be. — William MacAskill

You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships. — Brian Tracy

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted. — Dorothy Parker

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread. — Gerry Lindgren

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty ... — Evo Morales

I hate it when people try to act cool. I hope they all get gonorreah and die. — Mark Hoppus

Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted. — Libba Bray

Government is not competent enough to regulate. — James Cook

Value the wisdom of humility, as well as the sense of perspective it gives you. — Chris Hadfield

We had just recently moved to California from Italy, and while we were driving around, we saw a billboard ad for McDonald's on Olympic Boulevard in Los Angeles. The word 'guess' was in the ad, and my brother decided that that would be the name of our company! — Paul Marciano

But she was smart. She was savvy. And most of all, she was Southern. — Sarah Addison Allen

Materialism is a conviction based not upon evidence or logic but upon what Carl Sagan (speaking of another kind of faith) called a "deep-seated need to believe." Considered purely as a rational philosophy, it has little to recommend it; but as an emotional sedative, what Czeslaw Milosz liked to call the opiate of unbelief, it offers a refuge from so many elaborate perplexities, so many arduous spiritual exertions, so many trying intellectual and moral problems, so many exhausting expressions of hope or fear, charity or remorse. In this sense, it should be classified as one of those religions of consolation whose purpose is not to engage the mind or will with the mysteries of being but merely to provide a palliative for existential grievances and private disappointments. Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy. — David Bentley Hart