Beneficence Quote by Thomas Paine

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything…

— Thomas Paine

When irrational terror takes to itself the fiat of moral goodness somebody has to die. ... No man lives who has not got a…

— Arthur Miller

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives…

— Steven Pinker

How wholesome winter is, seen far or near; how good, above all mere sentimental, warm-blooded, short-lived, soft-hearted, moral goodness, commonly so called. Give me…

— Henry David Thoreau

Cleverly assorted scraps of spurious science are inculcated upon the children to prove necessity of law; obedience to the law is made a religion;…

— Peter Kropotkin

Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What is does rest on…

— Philip Kapleau

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

— Nelson Mandela

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the…

— Maimonides

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

— Charles Darwin

The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

— Moses Mendelssohn

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man…

— H. P. Blavatsky

That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up…

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley