Left Hand Philanthropy Quotes & Sayings

It doesn't have any effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it's a social issue. Like when you see someone stand up on a talk show and say, How am I supposed to explain to my children that two men are getting married? ... I dunno. It's your shitty kid. You fuckin' tell 'em. Why is that anyone else's problem? Two guys are in LOVE and they can't get married because you don't want to talk to your ugly child for five fuckin' minutes? — Louis C.K.

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they'll have the chance to become them. — Del Close

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television. — Paulo Coelho

If I can create something unique in the world, so can you. — Sci Furz

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that. — N. T. Wright

Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy. — John H. Tobe

Trane's playing is literally the most convincing proof of God's existence I've ever come across. — John Green

I haven't been this high-functioning since last century." - Chief Morray, The City Center — Simone Pond

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left. — Peter Buffett

Women, who are smarter than men in everything, mysteriously, don't seem to know how to parallel park. — Fausto Brizzi

O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! — Alexander The Great

You use sex to express every emotion except love. — Woody Allen

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends. — Macaulay Culkin

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth. — Matthew McConaughey

This undoubtedly accounts for my sense of shock when, on my first visit to Duke University, and by surprise, I came face-to-face with James B. Duke in his dignity, his glory perhaps, as the founder of that university. He stands imperially in bronze in front of a Methodist chapel aspiring to be a cathedral. He holds between two fingers of his left hand a bronze cigar. On one side of his pedestal is the legend: INDUSTRIALIST. On the other side is another single word: PHILANTHROPIST. The man thus commemorated seemed to me terrifyingly ignorant, even terrifyingly innocent, of the connection between his industry and his philanthropy. But I did know the connection. I felt it instantly and physically. The connection was my grandparents and thousands of others more or less like them. If you can appropriate for little or nothing the work and hope of enough such farmers, then you may dispense the grand charity of "philanthropy. — Wendell Berry