Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.” — Jeff Grubb Copy Share Image
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. — Jimmy Sangster Copy Share Image
America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a… — Hamza Yusuf 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
“PRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.” — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth,… — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought… — Herman Melville 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
That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to… — Alan Ball 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
The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity.… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
After the Second World War, facilitating the establishment of the UN and aiding the reconstruction of Europe, the United States was widely… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
There is a striking parallel between the spreading of germs and the spreading of ideas or propaganda. On the one hand we… — Andre Siegfried Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image