Beneficence Quotes

• Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Love
  • Neighbor
  • Consummation

• The world today is closer together and adherents of non-Christian religions live among us. In this situation, for the sake of understanding and peaceful coexistence, it is necessary to take a look over the fence of our own cultural context into the world of religions. In the process, we ascertain that compassion and beneficence are not restricted to our cultural context, but rather are universal human and primordial religious phenomena.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • Compassion
  • Religions
  • Context

• May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

  

  George Washington
  • Heaven
  • Beneficence

• I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

  

  Dean Alfange
  • Dignity
  • Handouts
  • Bartering

• The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

  

  Moses Mendelssohn
  • Religion
  • Physical
  • Necessary

• One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.

  

  Ann Radcliffe
  • Act
  • Usefulness
  • Beneficence

• Beneficence is a duty.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Duty
  • Beneficence

• The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Smile
  • Vegetarian
  • Beneficence