The act of giving is uncomfortable and inclined to cause a blush: there is inevitably the reflection that society ought to be so organized as to make it unnecessary for anyone to beg. So far from feeling self-satisfied because of giving, we feel our social conscience pricked because we profit by a system which reduces others to such want and humiliation.
Source:'On charity' in: Mortals and Others; Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, v.1.
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