Beneficence Quote by Adam Smith Download Open image “Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.” — Adam Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beneficence Force Freedom
To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free? — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free. — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the freedom, you must pay the price by being responsible for the consequences — Alvin Copy Share Image
If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he is not free at all. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky! — Saadi Copy Share Image
While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
