The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness. — Date Masamune Copy Share Image
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don’t live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
In a way, every parent is sort of dependent on the benevolence of the society around them to take care of their… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading. — John Updike Copy Share Image
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence. — African Spir Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
“In a pre-scientific society the best the common man can do is pin his faith on a leader and give him his… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental. — Ge Hong Copy Share Image
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell,… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 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
Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
A person who embraces the desire to find wholeness within his own being, soon learns the importance of tending to relationships, caring… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To… — Confucius Copy Share Image
My God, grant that my bounty may be a clear and transparent river, flowing from pure charity, and uncontaminated by self-love, ambition,… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason allows us to… — Charles Darwin 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
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
“Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.' 'I understand the concept. It's just . . . there seems to be… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
