Benevolent Quotes

• Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?

  

  Val McDermid
  • Government
  • Police
  • Interests

• He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itself in spite of him.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Purpose
  • Spite
  • Restless

• There are many names to Allah plus one you don't know. And each name is an attribute that flexes his characteristics: the Benevolent, the Merciful, the All-Knower... And to me, my names be flexin' personalities of myself: Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, Bobby Steels, the RZA, the Rzarector... These are personalities of myself.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Personality
  • Digital
  • Characteristics

• I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Benevolent
  • Misanthrope

• I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Philosophy
  • Screws
  • Idealist

• To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.

  

  George Washington
  • Design
  • Mankind
  • Worthy

• You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

  

  Cyrus the Great
  • World
  • Happiness
  • Actions

• The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Cancer
  • Reflection
  • Skins

• The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

  

  William McKinley
  • Presidential
  • Missions
  • Assimilation

• I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Thinking
  • Christian
  • Command

• Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Compliment
  • Disposition
  • Politeness

• What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?

  

  Confucius
  • Music
  • Man
  • Benevolent

• A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Destiny
  • Hearts
  • Tyrannical

• Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Freedom
  • Effort
  • Benevolent

• Benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.

  

  Elizabeth A. Johnson
  • Patriarchy
  • Benevolent

• It is an oftentimes dangerous world and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.

  

  Mike Medavoy
  • People
  • World
  • Dangerous

• 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
  • Government
  • Religious
  • Obligation

• If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Believe
  • Stressful
  • Benevolent