"[T]heir remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it. Indeed, their remedies are part of the disease.
The people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good ... such charity degrades and demoralises."
- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1891
The people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good ... such charity degrades and demoralises."
- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1891
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"They try to solve the problem of poverty, for instance, by keeping the poor alive; or ... amusing the poor.
But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty.
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible."
But this is not a solution: it is an aggravation of the difficulty.
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible."
"Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table?
They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it."
They should be seated at the board, and are beginning to know it."
"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity.
Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful.
They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious.
They are quite right to be so."
Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful.
They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious.
They are quite right to be so."
"Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives."
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