Benevolent Quotes

172 quotes by 151 authors

It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large… — Sanford Levinson
Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of… — Utah Phillips
Nature is not benevolent; Nature is just, gives pound for pound, measure for measure, makes no exceptions, never tempers her decrees with mercy, or winks… — John Burroughs
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old. — Michel de Montaigne
I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I… — Grover Cleveland
The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not… — Robert Duvall
Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to… — Adolf Hitler
One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions… — James Madison
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our… — Joseph Story
A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers,… — James Madison
In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive… — Dambisa Moyo
I need a lot of support... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically… — Robert Downey, Jr.
We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as… — Terrence Howard
I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien,… — Tom Baker
Iâ€™m on the benevolent side of antisocial. I donâ€™t mind people, but Iâ€™d prefer not to have a lot of them around. — J R Ward
The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God. — Robert Burns
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that,… — Camille Claudel
The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from… — Bertrand Russell
Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked into… — Mark Slouka
A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. — Tristan Jones

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