It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Men are not only prone to forget benefits; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
When you achieve equality, and freedom, and fairness, it's not because I grant it to you. It's because you fought for it… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
“They breathe the spirit of benevolence for which Toscanelli was noted, and indicate the greatness of the man—a greatness decidedly in contrast… — Frederick A. (Frederick Albion) Ober Copy Share Image
My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“He was a beneficent man. Multitudes of men are benevolent, but not beneficent. Benevolence is well wishing. Beneficence is well doing.” — Isaac Massey Haldeman Copy Share Image
“Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Never did any soul do good but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love or… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not… — Confucius Copy Share Image
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It makes that a virtue which is not a virtue, and that a crime which is not a crime. Religion consists in… — Henry M. Field Copy Share Image
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
