Benevolence Quotes
182 quotes by 141 authors
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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
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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
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
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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
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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
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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
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They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
— Sun Tzu
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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
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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
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
— Karl Pearson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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