Benevolent Quote by Herman Melville

For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The…

— Margaret Thatcher

To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any…

— Maximus the Confessor

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters…

— Velupillai Prabhakaran

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature…

— Walter Lippmann

Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without…

— Plato

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that…

— Diogenes

At times one hesitates to reprove or admonish evil-doers, either because one seeks a more favorable moment or fears his rebuke might make them…

— Augustine

“You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that…

— Jane Austen

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

— Susan Ertz

I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with…

— Charles Brockden Brown

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then…

— Philip Zimbardo

The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented by events…

— Zicheng Hong