Benevolence is often very peremptory.

It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence,…

— Pamela Geller

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to…

— Adam Smith

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

— Baruch Spinoza

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

— Joseph Addison

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

— Jane Austen

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

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

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

— Sun Tzu

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

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

— Adam Smith

“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

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