Generosity during life is a very different thing from…

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other…

— Martial

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us .…

— Desmond Tutu

Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only…

— Horace Mann

When you achieve equality, and freedom, and fairness, it's not because I grant it to you. It's because you fought for it because it…

— Kamala Harris

A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf…

— Wendy Mass

“Now general benevolence was one of the leading features of the Pickwickian theory, and no one was more remarkable for the zealous manner in…

— Charles Dickens

For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality…

— Jack Kornfield

Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our…

— Henry Fielding

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

— Adam Smith

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't…

— Harry Browne

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities…

— Emmanuel des Essarts

Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of…

— Walter E. Williams

I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most…

— Matthew Simpson

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,…

— Joseph Addison