Benevolence Quotes

182 Benevolence quotes by 136 unique authors

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. — Frederick Douglass
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence,… — Walter E. Williams
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time. — William Blake
You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence. — Zora Neale Hurston
To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense… — Confucius
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. — Samuel Johnson
To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power. — Anwar Sadat
There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but… — Michel de Montaigne
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess… — Blaise Pascal
Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not… — Moss Hart
Tis never for their wisdom that one loves the wisest, or for their wit that one loves the wittiest; 'tis for benevolence and virtue and… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them,… — Albert Schweitzer
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends… — Edmund Burke
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. — George Meredith
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and… — Horace Greeley
Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day — Thomas Overbury
Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension. — Rob Brezsny
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,… — Saint Basil
No one who has lived in the world as long as you & I have, can entertain the pious delusion that it is engineered upon… — Thomas Huxley
There's so much benevolence on helping your fellow person. And the morality that helped build our country is based on the values that are found… — Tom Hayden
Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and… — Marcus Aurelius
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around… — Bill Vaughan
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless… — Matthew Simpson
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most… — John Quincy Adams
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. — William Dean Howells

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