quotations about benevolence
I had such great expectations
Of the world's benevolence
Of benevolence
But I prefer hallucinations
'cause they tend to make more sense
TODD RUNDGREN
"Temporary Sanity"
While I crawl upon this planet I think myself obliged to do what good I can in my narrow domestic sphere, to all my fellow-creatures, and to wish them all the good I cannot do.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
letter to the Bishop of Waterford, January 22, 1780
Nine parts of self-interest gilt over with one part of philanthropy.
HERBERT SPENCER
Social Statics
It is necessary that universal benevolence should supersede the regulations of precedent and prescription, before these regulations can safely be abolished. Meanwhile, their very subsistence depends on the system of injustice and violence, which they have been devised to palliate.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Essay on Christianity
He saw the goodness, not the taint,
In many a poor do-nothing creature,
And gave to sinner and to saint,
But kept his faith in human nature.
E.C. STEDMAN
Horace Greeley
Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence.
RUFFINI
attributed, Day's Collacon
Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It goeth about doing good.
WILLIAM NEVINS
attributed, Pearls of Thought
Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Making Wishes
The propriety of cultivating feelings of benevolence toward our fellow-creatures is seldom denied in theory, however frequently the duty may be omitted in practice.
ELIZABETH HAMILTON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
BIBLE
Psalm 41:1-2
Benevolence is the most commendable when it is bestowed upon those in distress; it is a token of righteousness, whereby we acknowledge the gifts which God hath put into our hands.
RICHARD JOHNSON
attributed, Day's Collacon
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.
RICHARD ALDINGTON
The Colonel's Daughter
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Physics and Politics
Benevolence always flows from a pure fountain.
ELIZA SUSAN QUINCY
attributed, Day's Collacon
We praise those who love their fellow-men.
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics
To feel much for others, and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
ADAM SMITH
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
MARIA EDGEWORTH
Angelina
His love was like the liberal air--
Embracing all, to cheer and bless;
And every grief that mortals share
Found pity in his tenderness.
WILLIAM WINTER
I.H. Bromley
We talk a lot about kindness and benevolence but our behaviours reflects our animality.
OSHO
attributed, The Inward Journey in Osho's Guidance
The benevolent affections will not revolve around selfishness; the cold-hearted must expect to meet coldness; the proud, haughtiness; the passionate, anger; and the violent, rudeness. Those who forget the rights of others, must not be surprised if their own are forgotten; and those who stoop to the lowest embraces of sense must not wonder, if others are not concerned to find their prostrate honor, and lift it up to the remembrance and respect of the world.
ALBERT PIKE
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry