Benevolent Quotes

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.

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.

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

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.

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

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.

I'm a benevolent dictator.

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

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

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

Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. 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.

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.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

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.

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.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

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

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

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

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.

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.

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