Benevolence Quote by Joseph Hall

Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good…

— Joseph Hall

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more…

— Roland Allen

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other…

— Martial

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

— Sun Tzu

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same…

— Khaled Hosseini

Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our…

— Henry Fielding

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

— Adam Smith

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,…

— Herman E. Daly

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't…

— Harry Browne

“Now general benevolence was one of the leading features of the Pickwickian theory, and no one was more remarkable for the zealous manner in…

— Charles Dickens

The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities…

— Emmanuel des Essarts