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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

In the future society, i.e. the communist society that we want to build, we are not going to establish charity institution, as there shall be no needy or poor, and no alms-giving and alms-taking.

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.