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 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
Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“general benevolence was one of the leading features of the Pickwickian theory,” — Charles Dickens 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
When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within… — Saadi 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
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
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
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
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
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out… — Walter Scott 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
The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga.… — B.K.S. Iyengar 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
If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“In an age of Perfect Virtue, the worthy are not honored; the talented are not employed. Rulers are like the high branches… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry 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
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves.… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
“As they have the public society under their care and power, so they have advantage to promote the public interest every way;… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
