Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at… — Clare Balding Copy Share Image
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I like joking around and being a little mischievous. Once an audience or even a group of friends realizes that you're being… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance,… — Victor Hugo 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
Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill,… — Sanford Levinson Copy Share Image
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in… — Dambisa Moyo Copy Share Image
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now? — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the products of the culture industry human beings get into trouble only so that they can be rescued unharmed, usually by… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently… — George Washington Copy Share Image
If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as… — Ben Moreell Copy Share Image
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the… — Mike Medavoy Copy Share Image
