Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Every city should support its own poor, and if it was too small, the people in the surrounding villages should also be urged to contribute

It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.

Despite what skeptics and critics sometimes say, followers of Jesus have transformed the world in all sorts of ways in the last two thousand years. It was Jesus's followers, after all, who went about caring for the poor, tending the sick, and providing education for people of all sorts (not only the rich or the elite). There is no reason why Jesus's followers should not continue this work and every reason why they should.

So many people there are so concerned about being socially conscious and environmentally aware, but they don't give a second thought to how they treat the guy washing their car or cutting their grass.

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.

every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business.

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.