“The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the… — Mencius Copy Share Image
“If someone has the courage to admit they were wrong, you should have the grace to give them credit for admitting it.… — James Clear Copy Share Image
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence;… — Martial Copy Share Image
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To… — Confucius Copy Share Image
My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition,… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production,… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Profanation and violation are part of the perversity of sex, which never will conform to liberal theories of benevolence. Every model of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence. — African Spir Copy Share Image
“Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental. — Ge Hong Copy Share Image
“In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time… — William Blake Copy Share Image
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell,… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
When you achieve equality, and freedom, and fairness, it's not because I grant it to you. It's because you fought for it… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
The state dictates and coerces; religion teaches and persuades. The state enacts laws; religion gives commandments. The state is armed with physical… — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image