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Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Confucius

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Confucius
Chinese - Philosopher
551 BC - 479 BC

The need to raise itself above humanity is humanity's main characteristic.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.

Adam Smith

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Robert M. Lindner

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Laini Taylor

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Ambrose Bierce

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

Adolf Hitler

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Oscar Wilde

Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

Sylvia Boorstein

Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

Confucius

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

Arthur Henderson

Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion, benevolence, and humanity.

Joseph Addison

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People

Errol Morris

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

James F. Cooper

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Auguste Comte

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.

Charles Dickens

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