When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“General benevolence, but not general friendship, make a man what he ought to be.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike Copy Share Image
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
The little mind who loves itself, will wr'te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents.… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You are so to put forth the power that God has given you; you are so to give, and sacrifice to give,… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The megalomania of the genes does not mean that benevolence and cooperation cannot evolve, any more than the law of gravity proves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair. — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
My designs might be considered bold but the foundation is one of benevolence. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence. — Zengzi Copy Share Image
How many haters does it take to change a light bulb? none. they fear change, even if it can make the world… — Cuts And Scars Copy Share Image
“Respect, Honesty, Courage, Rectitude, Loyalty, Honour, Benevolence” — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image