If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all.
—Eva Perón, 1949The deed is everything, the glory naught.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
—Antonio Porchia, 1943A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000