Philanthropists List Quotes & Sayings

We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars ... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality. — Bashar Al-Assad

People are always talking about love like it's something everyday. People say they love their parents, but what does that mean? — Melvin Burgess

Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. — Gregory David Roberts

I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition. — Thomas Merton

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves. — Richard M. Nixon

I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in the world. — W. Somerset Maugham