Benevolent Quotes

172 quotes by 151 authors

Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public… — Deborah Lupton
We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door… — Wheeler McMillen
A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of… — Benjamin Franklin
The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor… — Epicurus
What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those… — Selima Hill
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to… — Miroslav Volf
Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing… — Charlie Campbell
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced… — Anatole France
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
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of… — Thomas Jefferson
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower… — Douglas William Jerrold
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. — Adam Smith
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. — Voltaire
Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat… — Stephen King
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin… — Victor Hugo
there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This… — Khaled Hosseini
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God. — Scott Dikkers

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