Benevolence Quotes - Page 2

• A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.

  Jimmy Sangster

  Evil, Mind, Patterns

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• A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

  Ezra Stiles

  Government, Perfect, Infinite

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• It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

  Aristotle

  Men, Special, Use

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.49, Aristotle

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• Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ministers

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.3

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• Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

  Joanna Trollope

  Names, Differences, Perception

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• We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty basic.

  Jon Fishman

  Community, Trying, Stuff

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• Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

  John Updike

  Government, Peculiar, Madness

  FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 24, 2014

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• I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

  Patrick Marber

  Uncles, Mistake, Heart

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

  Confucius

  Beautiful, Wise, Men

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

  Horace Mann

  Death, Fear, Pride

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.211

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• I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Believe

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• To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

  Confucius

  Practice, Vitality, Vigor

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• Try to be of some use to others.

  Joseph Hall

  Trying, Use

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• Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

  Thomas Overbury

  Next Day, Fire, Coal

  Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoirs of His Life”, p.252

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• You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

  Bertrand Russell

  Fashion, Boys, Order

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.425, Psychology Press

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• Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

  Immanuel Kant

  Practice, Done, Charity

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• No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

  James Russell Lowell

  Enemy, Desire, Needs

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”

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• There is no bounty to be showed to such
  As have real goodness: Bounty is
  A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act
  Can take effect on them that have no power
  Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

  Ben Jonson

  Real, Spices, Virtue

  Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.59, Oxford : Oxford University Press

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• Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Feelings, Action, Trifling

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• As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  May, Venture, Able

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.37

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• Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hands, Free Will, Recalls

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• The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.

  Omar Khayyam

  Soul, Despair, World

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• The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Opportunity, Punishment, Missing

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• Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers.
  Give and spend,
  and be sure that God will send;
  for only in giving and spending
  do you fulfill the object of His sending.

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Hands, Shopping

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• We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Doe, Should

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