Best Benevolence Quotes

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Nothing teaches character better than generosity.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence.

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as the ‘benefactor’ of mankind. Since his new benevolence has a practical foundation, he cannot very well adhere to the old Biblical recommendation, that the left hand should not know what the right hand giveth.

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

The little mind who loves itself, will wr’te and think with the vulgar; but the great mind will be bravely eccentric, and scorn the beaten road, from universal benevolence.

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man’s life.

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.

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.

It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence, charity, medicine, technology, and all of the gifts of the Jews. Our goodness makes them ill.

Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence, is forever out of place.

It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for mankind.

Pastries . . . can only be appreciated to the full extent of their subtlety when they are not eaten to assuage our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to full some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.

When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as — and often even believed to be — benevolence.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice
since there are lots of good and respectable people in the
world.

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

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

Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship. Even protectiveness and benevolence toward the poor, toward minorities, and especially toward women have involved equating them with children.

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, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.