Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”
— Albert Camus · Charity
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”
— Albert Camus · Charity
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.
A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a tiny global elite, surely such charity should be applauded? But philanthropy is a dangerous substitution for progressive taxation.
I do shamefully little for charity, and I always talk about it when I do.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
I want to show that I have the same attitude to the game and personality that my hero had. I only ever met Ronaldinho once, at a charity event in Rio.
I have three wood-fired ovens... I have one at my house, one at my ranch, one on the trailer that I use for charity events.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.