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
Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production,… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
As I love and accept myself exactly as I am, right here and right now with all my so-called flaws and imperfections,… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little… — Charles Henry Fowler Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy.… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.” — Christopher Smart Copy Share Image
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Humanity is made up of love, peace, benevolence, sympathy, giving, faith and respect. — Sfiso MaAphula Ngema Copy Share Image
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
