I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never…

— Barry Humphries

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around…

— Catharine Beecher

Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or…

— John Burroughs

“It’s okay, buddy!” I shade my eyes and look up at the sky. “Luckily for you, I am both stunningly good-looking and benevolent. I…

— Sara Wolf

The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of…

— H. G. Wells

What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about…

— Selima Hill

I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen…

— Gary Numan

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary…

— James Madison

You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“There's no pain on earth that doesn't require a benevolent witness.”

— sue monk kidd

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

— George Bernard Shaw

The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is…

— Horace Mann

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

— William A. Dembski

“But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.”

— Sue Monk Kidd