Benevolent Quotes

172 quotes by 146 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
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be… — Julia Child
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious… — Charles Caleb Colton
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity,… — Ronald Reagan
Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do. — Melody Beattie
The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some defect of talent or opportunity… — John Jay Chapman
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others… — Eric Hoffer
I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people… — Mark Twain
American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those… — James Madison
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative,… — William Makepeace Thackeray
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man. — Thomas Paine
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of… — Mao Zedong
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,… — James Madison
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of… — Thomas Jefferson
Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words. — Lord Kelvin
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

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