"I was benevolent and good; misery made me……" — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

More Benevolent Quotes

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• It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of… — Aristotle
• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
• Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. — Mortimer Adler
• I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator. — Richard Branson
• I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick… — Julia Child
• Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human… — Horace Mann
• Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other… — Charles Caleb Colton
• For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent… — Ronald Reagan
• Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while,… — Melody Beattie
• The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some… — John Jay Chapman
• Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the… — Eric Hoffer
• I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those… — Mark Twain

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