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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Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
—Ralph Nader, 2000The friend of all humanity is no friend to me.
—Molière, 1666Unfortunately, humanitarianism has been the mark of an inhuman time.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1932Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898