Being Beneficial Quotes

#1. I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest.

Joseph Hume

#2. Religion, far from being beneficial food, turns to poison in infected brains.

Voltaire

#3. Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.

William Blake

#4. We can say that the people closest to God are teachers who devoted themselves to being beneficial to others. For they are the ones who build the human; they are the ones who build the society. the ones to build the present and future, and the ones to put their stamp on the future are teachers.

M. Fethullah Gulen

#5. The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.

Seth Roberts

#6. When we treat the earth as an object, we dehumanize ourselves.

Craig Detweiler

#7. You can't control other people's actions, but you can control who "thinks" they have control over you.

Shannon L. Alder

#8. Dixie Clay knew now that the world was full of secret sorrowing women, each with her own doors closed to rooms she wouldn't be coming back to, walking and talking and cutting lard into flour and slicing fish from their spines and acting as if it were an acceptable thing, this living.

Tom Franklin

#9. We may not all live holy lives, but we live in a world alive with holy moments.

Kent Nerburn

#10. Why then should a man, who has done no wrong, do wrong to himself?

Augustine Of Hippo

#11. Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial, and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now, every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot, and you see the local news, and they give box-office reports.

Bryan Cranston

#12. Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.

Carter Heyward

#13. I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

Alexis Korner

#14. Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

Thomas Aquinas

#15. I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

Rob Corddry

#16. Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.

Louise Slaughter

#17. I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.

Charles Koch

#18. Um, I'm just going to go tell Zeb hi really fast." Somehow saying hi had never sounded so much like "strip naked and fuck on the bar.

Jay Crownover

#19. When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Edith Hamilton

#20. Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Plutarch

#21. There are three fundamental phases to psychological and spiritual growth: being with difficult material (e.g., old wounds, anger); releasing it; and replacing it with something more beneficial.

Rick Hanson

#22. When we learn from our cause and effect we increase our positives, we chip away and hopefully eliminate our negatives, so we can be beneficial to everyone else. It's not about being good for me, it's about being the best that I can be so I can be a good husband, father, and neighbor.

Ted Nugent

#23. Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.

Nicholas Of Cusa

#24. It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.

Ted Dekker

#25. Spreading the word about real issues is still helping. Just being conscious of helping animals every day will help guide you to make beneficial decisions for animals.

Alison Eastwood

#26. Magdey pledged to strip Ustar of any loot not only from the current raid but from several forthcoming ones as well. All

Vasily Mahanenko

#27. In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and abilities that are far beyond the minds of mortal men.

Frederick Lenz

#28. If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

Jonathan Zittrain

#29. But if I hadn't shoved you off the boat back there,you'd be lost at sea now,wouldn't you? We'd all be lost! So thanks to me you're all standing on land.
(Pirates, its a good thing they're idiots)

Dave Barry