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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be… — Martin Luther 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
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
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
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
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
When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous… — Ben Jonson 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
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
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions. — Sylvia Boorstein 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
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
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
Mr. President, the dedication of 35 percent of all construction contracts to women is really mind blowing to say the least. President… — Kema Chikwe Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence,… — Horace Mann 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
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
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
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
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life… — James Payn Copy Share Image
It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
