Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of…

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

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

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

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

“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

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 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

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

— Adam Smith

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

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same…

— Khaled Hosseini

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

— Sun Tzu

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

There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more…

— Roland Allen

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

— Jane Austen