Benevolence Quote by Confucius

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of…

— Adam Smith

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them…

— John McCarthy

A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

— Jimmy Sangster

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little…

— James Payn

In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for…

— Frederick Douglass

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive…

— Aldous Huxley

“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness,…

— Washington Irving

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

— Hosea Ballou

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom…

— Immanuel Kant

We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's…

— Jon Fishman

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

Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that…

— Plato