Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden. — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
Every religion, Eastern and Western, has the same archetype of benevolent guides in Heaven helping us, whether they are called bodhisattvas, deities,… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
The original Zal story by Ferdowsi gives a very moving account of an infant who had all odds against him - he… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but… — William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Copy Share Image
The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror. — Thomas Day Copy Share Image
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings.… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
