Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President… — Kema Chikwe Copy Share Image
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life… — James Payn Copy Share Image
It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an… — Richard Mant Copy Share Image
