“Charity is detrimental unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.”

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”

“When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.”

“Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.”

“Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.”

“You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.”