It's enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be…

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

— Mary MacLane

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a…

— Stephen Fry

How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a…

— Richard LaGravenese

Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility…

— Tristram Stuart

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

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