Top 100 Quotes About Benevolent
#1. I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.
Eric Whitacre
#2. Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.
C.S. Lewis
#4. The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.
Alaa Al Aswany
#5. If you see failure as a monster stalking you, or one that has
already ruined your life, take another look. That monster can
become a benevolent teacher, opening your mind to successes
you cannot now imagine.
Martha N. Beck
#6. I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
Barry Humphries
#7. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
George Bernard Shaw
#9. He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
Mencius
#10. 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
#11. My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition
broken mirrors and so forth
hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.
Benjamin Wood
#12. Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
William A. Dembski
#13. 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.
Julia Child
#14. What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.
Charles A. Murray
#15. dolphins are not the benevolent mammals we'd like them to be; those beaming faces hide the minds of assassins.
Philip Hoare
#16. PRESIDENT BARTLETT: See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.
Aaron Sorkin
#17. The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.
Bertrand Russell
#18. Hey, I said we don't carry weapons, I didn't say we couldn't defend ourselves." Captain Stanley Memphis, head of alien team disguised as pint-sized critters on a quest to learn if humans are savage bastards or a benevolent tribe.
Delilah Jean Williams
#19. A good word will spread in the grapevine, bringing forth clusters of grapes and the benevolent of wine; a bad word will spread withering the vines, and choke the potential grapes.
Anthony Liccione
#20. There's a beast in me. I destroy those I cannot control. I must be certain that those close to me share my identical interests. I'm benevolent within that construction. I'm ghastly outside of it.
James Ellroy
#21. The Great Way is not named; Great Discriminations are not spoken; Great Benevolence is not benevolent; Great Modesty is not humble; Great Daring does not attack. If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.
Chuang Chou
#22. I have no trouble selling out - I'm a benevolent hack, in a certain way - but I want to pander for something I believe in.
Harold Ramis
#23. A benevolent act is like a locust: it sleeps until it is called.
Mark Helprin
#24. But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.
Sue Monk Kidd
#25. I must admit that I feel that the best form of government is benevolent despotism.
Jeff Grubb
#26. The Cold War is a psychological game, that is dangerous and counterproductive in the extreme - it does not lead to a benevolent understanding among states - just hatred and discord, in this case, will be sown.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#27. No, the idea of a benevolent god was very much an exception in the enormous pantheon of gods that people had invented over the course of human history.
Alexander McCall Smith
#28. With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.
Adrian McKinty
#29. If you truly believed you had a benevolent bus driver, and you were certain he was taking you somewhere good, you could just settle in and appreciate the ride.
Maria Semple
#30. Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.
John Kramer
#31. What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?
Selima Hill
#32. A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
Sun Tzu
#33. The paradigm of social media is one that Silicon Valley would like to extend to society at large: a technocracy of benevolent, but total, surveillance. In this kind of society, profits flow to platform owners, not those writing tweets and sharing YouTube videos.
Jacob Silverman
#34. Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#35. You will place the benevolent yoke of reason on the necks of the unknown beings on other planets, who may still be living in that primitive state known as freedom.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#36. For example, a person who is often stuck in negative thoughts and turbulent emotions may be more likely to attract spirits that are also negative in nature. Likewise, for bright, positive people attracting more benevolent spirits.
Kieran Foster
#37. The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.
Felix O. Hartmann
#38. No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.
Charles Grandison Finney
#40. So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.
Arthur C. Clarke
#41. The feeling of distress is the root of benevolence, therefore a benevolent man is ever mindful of those who are suffering and in distress.
Inazo Nitobe
#42. 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
#43. He was not my actual father-who would have loved me and spent time with me-but a benevolent and vaguely important figure named Mr. Brown
Gillian Flynn
#44. What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?
Confucius
#45. I'm on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don't mind people, but I'd prefer not to have a lot of them around.
Jessica Bird
#46. Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.
Michel De Montaigne
#47. 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
#48. The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to cover his tracks, the bloody trail of his assault against reality and others.
Camille Paglia
#49. 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.
Tom Baker
#50. Satan and that man is still man even after 1000 years of the righteous, benevolent rule of Christ on earth. Even under the most ideal circumstances imaginable, man is still totally depraved and in desperate need of a new heart by the regeneration of the Spirit of God.
Mark Hitchcock
#51. Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and becomes old; it is custom which hinders the husband from perceiving the change.
Timothy Shay Arthur
#52. I need a lot of support ... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival game. You get on the right side of the tracks, and you now are actually working with what some people would call magic.
Robert Downey Jr.
#53. Grace is the state of being in which we are loved unconditionally and all that we need is provided for us by the benevolent hand of God.
Alan Cohen
#54. Higher good is like water:
the good in water benefits all,
and does so without contention.
It rests where people dislike to be,
so it is close to the Way.
Good ground;
profound is the good in its heart,
Benevolent the good it bestows.
Lao-Tzu
#55. After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes.
Kat Stiles
#56. Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.
John Muir
#57. It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.
Sanford Levinson
#58. 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
#59. The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
Walter Lippmann
#60. The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#62. From a pragmatic point of view, the difference between living against a background of foreigness (an indifferent Universe) and one of intimacy (a benevolent Universe) means the difference between a general habit of wariness and one of trust.
William James
#63. There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself, in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it. In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings, and this light cannot help but illuminate the world.
Mooji
#64. People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.
Lois Lowry
#65. 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
#66. 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.
#67. Success is not measured on what you earn, it is how you manage to be happy, benevolent and contented with your life.
Sherwin Salinas
#68. Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.
Alexander Smith
#69. The director's in charge of every single decision [in film]. It's a dictatorship.It's a benevolent dictatorship, but it's true. It's every single shot. There's nothing arbitrary.
Matt Damon
#70. Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.
Ted Malloch
#71. If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.
Zach Braff
#72. I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.
C.S. Lewis
#73. Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.
Sakyong Mipham
#74. God's benevolent reign requires the principles of love
Sunday Adelaja
#75. The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Voltaire
#76. Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
Maureen Dowd
#77. Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.
Josiah Bartlett
#78. When a man has been highly honored and has eaten a little he is most benevolent.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#79. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
Mary Shelley
#80. They talked, too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering course of their destinies with secret confessions offered like prayers to the room's benevolent hush.
Libba Bray
#81. 25. Try how the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who is satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his own just acts and benevolent disposition.
Marcus Aurelius
#82. Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
Scott Dikkers
#83. A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
Walter Scott
#84. But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God.
Robert Burns
#85. 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
#86. The spirits rose like an ether that spun an arabesque and touched down as gently as a benevolent mask.
Patti Smith
#87. Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?
Dorothy Day
#88. I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one ... I would hope.
Joanna Lumley
#89. The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#90. Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
Mason Cooley
#91. Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
Ann Voskamp
#92. The researchers speculated that men in traditional marriages are not overtly hostile toward women but instead are "benevolent sexists" - holding positive yet outdated views about women.10 (Another term I have heard is "nice guy misogynists.")
Sheryl Sandberg
#93. The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#94. America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.
Hamza Yusuf
#95. Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.
Chinua Achebe
#96. Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.
S. S. Wilson
#97. If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.
Benjamin Franklin
#98. Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.
J.M.E. McTaggart
#99. However benevolent men may be in their intentions, they cannot know what women want and what suits the necessities of women's lives as well as women know these things themselves.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
#100. 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
