Benevolence Quote by John Quincy Adams

“religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the…

— John Stuart Mill

All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the…

— George Gilder

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all…

— George Ripley

The moves to contractualism and utilitarianism required some extra ingredients besides mortalism, the denial that God is in charge of the world, and the…

— Catherine Wilson

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward…

— Christopher Hitchens

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

— Jacob Neusner

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble…

— Mahatma Gandhi

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the…

— David Hume

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless…

— Samuel Johnson

So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the…

— Herbert Croly