8 years ago in Quotes
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint.
When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.
 8 years ago in Quotes
The only true charity is so contrived that the recipient need beg no more.
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 8 years ago in Quotes
Charity is the drowning of rights in the shithole of mercy.
 1 decade ago in Quotes
Give them a chance. Give them money. Don't dole them out poetry-books and railway-tickets like babies. Give them the wherewithal to buy these things. When your Socialism comes it may be different, and we may think in terms of commodities instead of cash. Till it comes give people cash, for it is the warp of civilisation, whatever the woof may be. The imagination ought to play upon money and realise it vividly, for it's the - the second most important thing in the world. It is so slurred over and hushed up, there is so little clear thinking - oh, political economy, of course, but so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means. Money: give Mr. Bast money, and don't bother about his ideals. He'll pick up those for himself.