Paul Newman Quotes

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.

I support children's charities; I just don't want them around me. It's not very admirable, but it's the truth.

Profit at any cost is one extreme of the spectrum. On the other extreme is unselfish submission for the social good or, more accurately, charity. Somewhere in the middle is peaceful, and much required, coexistence.

Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.

Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issuesnot from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.

Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value.

I open the door for old ladies, I help old ladies across the road. I do a show for leukemia every year, but I don't broadcast that because it's against my image.

The reason I like socialism is that it's kind of enforced Christianity. It's basically very Christian, in the sense of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." These people have nothing, so you have to share.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.

It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.