Beneficence Quotes

31 quotes by 25 authors

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. — Ann Radcliffe
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to the benevolence of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise… — John Calvin
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all… — Charles Darwin
Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he… — Immanuel Kant
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in… — H. P. Blavatsky
The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these… — Plutarch
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
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which… — Michael Faraday
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil.… — Charles Horton Cooley
I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize… — Helen Keller
There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own… — Samuel Johnson
Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person… — Dawna Markova
The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal. — Gautama Buddha
The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered. — Samuel Johnson
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence — Moses Mendelssohn
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of… — Thomas Paine
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine
'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with… — Austin Farrer

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