Dynamic benign neglect.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

— Warren Buffett

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Instead, ourselves the beneficiaries of this kind of benign neglect, we now measure success as the extent to which we manage to keep our…

— Joan Didion

Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is…

— Ted Bell

Intelligence may indeed be a benign influence creating isolated groups of philosopher-kings far apart in the heavens... On the other hand, intelligence may be…

— Freeman Dyson

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

— Theodore Dalrymple

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the…

— Albert Camus

Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole

— Jane Jacobs

Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware…

— Tommy Rettig

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward Said

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of…

— Tom Robbins

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

— Mary MacLane

Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep…

— Moby

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion…

— Daniel Dennett

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

— Timothy Geithner