Top 282 Benevolent Quotes & Sayings

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

If any spirit created the universe, it is malevolent, not benevolent.

I am benevolent.

Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

The benevolent have the advantage of the envious, even in this present life; for the envious man is tormented not only by all the ill that befalls himself, but by all the good that happens to another; whereas the benevolent man is the better prepared to bear his own calamities unruffled, from the complacency and serenity he has secured from contemplating the prosperity of all around him.

Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.

We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way.

Gangsters lived in the neighborhood. They weren't apart from it. Their relationships with people were both benevolent and scary.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?

Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way.

Red is a benevolent dictatorship.

I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet.

The world is intertwined and we therefore have to be gentle in the way that we treat one another and the Earth, so that our impact on others is benevolent and good.

I came to the realization that I had failed in some respects because I had been more of a benevolent narrator than the world I saw reflected around me, and in the lives of the people in my community, and in my family. There was no benevolent God sparing us pain and loss and grief and struggle. If I was going to continue to write about the place where I am from, and the kind of people who live in my community and who are in my family, I owed it to them to be honest with what our lives are like.

His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.

God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence; but the world shows no indications of such a benevolent and holy Providence. This earth appears to be a hell, or at best a planet condemned -- a sort of purgatory: it is filled with violence, tyranny and injustice, and yet God, if he exist, is absolute sovereign, and has willed that things should be as they are! -- Therefore there is no God.

As one of the leaders in the world for AI, I feel tremendous excitement and responsibility to create the most awesome and benevolent technology for society and to educate the most awesome and benevolent technologists - that's my calling.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

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

A small craft in an ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

I'm a rationalist. And I can see no evidence for a benevolent and interventionist creator.

It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.

If a benevolent God exists, so does reincarnation. He wouldn't send me here just once.

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.

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

There is great potential to use computer vision technology in a constructive and benevolent way.

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.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

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.

The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.

I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they think of psychiatry; and today that means the "pill" as an ultimate answer. Also, if you have a desire for social control, "benevolent" control and "benevolent" authority, then again biological psychiatry offers a tremendous opportunity.

We might do well to stay home a few days and walk over the fields, or to stand in the shelter of the barn door and reflect upon the relentless and yet benevolent forces of Mother Nature. The laws of nature are relentless. They can never be disobeyed without exacting a penalty. Yet they are benevolent, for when they are understood and obeyed, nature yields up the abundance that blesses those who understand and obey.

Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.

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

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

I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.

Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.

Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.

The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.

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?

I'm a benevolent dictator.

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

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.