Beneficent Quotes
88 quotes by 75 authors
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by…
— Annie Besant
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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and…
— Carol P. Christ
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[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. But this is a rash argument, as…
— Charles Darwin
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I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of…
— Charles Darwin
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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
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We should scarcely be excused in concluding this essay without calling the reader's attention to the beneficent and wise laws established by the author of…
— John Dalton
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The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and…
— Otto Hermann Kahn
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Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be…
— Norman Robert Campbell
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[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he…
— Immanuel Kant
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Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in…
— Justus von Liebig
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Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.
— James Martineau
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Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been…
— Calvin Coolidge
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I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the…
— George Washington
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