Benevolent Quotes

172 quotes by 151 authors

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and… — Cyrus the Great
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. — William McKinley
Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death… — S. S. Wilson
A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up… — Tristan Jones
The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative Â– destroying… — Kurt Lewin
Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
And I love the people there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are cool. But I'm terrified of the next generation that takes over. A benevolent… — Jacob Appelbaum
There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to… — Pope John Paul II
Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God. — William A. Dembski
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question… — Gerald Holton
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: â€œMerry Christmasâ€-not â€œWeep… — Ayn Rand
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs. — Dana Rohrabacher
I have no trouble selling outâ€”Iâ€™m a benevolent hack, in a certain wayâ€”but I want to pander for something I believe in. — Harold Ramis
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second,… — Margaret Thatcher
They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm… — David Attenborough
Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants of… — William McKinley
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! — Hosea Ballou
If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses power,… — Ben Moreell
I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks. — Paul Rudnick
If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once. — Zach Braff

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