Benevolence Quotes

182 quotes by 141 authors

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create… — Aristotle
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore,… — Hans Bender
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. — Mortimer Adler
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. — Richard Branson
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need… — John Jay Chapman
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to… — C.S. Lewis
It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity;… — Samuel Johnson
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu
When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be… — Sun Tzu
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than… — Joseph Hall
Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. — Karl Pearson
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
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the… — Thomas Jefferson
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near… — Confucius
Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty… — Samuel Johnson
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt… — Edmund Burke
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man… — Henry Ward Beecher
The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state… — George Washington
The more I work with the powers of Nature, the more I feel God's benevolence to man; the closer I am to the great truth… — Guglielmo Marconi
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes,… — Henry Fielding

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