Benevolent Quotes

• Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

  Mortimer Adler

  Selfless, Unselfish Love, Unselfishness

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• 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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• To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

  Adam Smith

  Exercise, Perfection, Selfishness

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".

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

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Believe

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• We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

  Terrence Howard

  Beautiful, Ugly, Sides

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• The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

  Voltaire

  Government, Tyrants, Politics

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• The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

  William McKinley

  Presidential, United States, Missions

  William McKinley's letter, December 21, 1898.

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• But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Friendship, Happiness

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.423

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• The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

  William Dean Howells

  Wise, Winning, Men

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• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  Camille Claudel

  Art, Men, Generous Man

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• Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Children, Struggle, Charity

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• But deep this truth impressed my mind —
  Thro' all his works abroad,
  The heart benevolent and kind
  The most resembles God.

  Robert Burns

  God, Heart, Kind

  "The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life".

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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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• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  Hans Bender

  Evil, Being Positive, Mind

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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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• I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be.

  Tom Baker

  Way, Scripts, Aliens

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Life, Rain, Passion

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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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• To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

  James Payn

  Mind, Littles, Benevolence

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

  Mason Cooley

  Mirrors, Soul, Faces

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• Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Business, Giving, Advice

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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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• In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Mom, Mother, Children

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

  Hosea Ballou

  Done, Consciousness, Benevolence

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• The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Cancer, Reflection, Erosion

  Ernest Hemingway (1995). “The old man and the sea”, p.5, Hueber Verlag

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