Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

— Ayn Rand

The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and…

— John Calvin

Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs…

— Bill Vaughan

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested…

— Saint Augustine

While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the…

— John Quincy Adams

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

— Saadi

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

— Charles Darwin

“Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the…

— Maimonides

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

— Moses Mendelssohn

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man…

— H. P. Blavatsky

That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up…

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

— Henry David Thoreau

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

— Thomas Paine

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

— Jane Addams