I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard… — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
I profess myself a citizen of the world, totally unfettered by the little, mean distinctions of climate or of country, which diminish… — John Paul Jones Copy Share Image
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
I have heard of a monk who in his cell had a glorious vision of Jesus revealed to him. Just then a… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Adam Smith's image of competition in the marketplace was intended as an adjunct to his detailed description of human motivation in The… — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
“We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people. — Saadi Copy Share Image
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the… — Mencius Copy Share Image
“The right way to start your day...Guard well within yourself with benevolence, Hateful people will always try to provoke you.” — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
“When the Great Tao (Way or Method) ceased to be observed, benevolence and righteousness came into vogue.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions. — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
