Benevolent Quotes - Page 3

• Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

  Clare Balding

  Attitude, Children, Kids

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• Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

  Lord Kelvin

  Strong, Lying, Intelligent

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• The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Simplicity, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.463

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• I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.

  Paul Rudnick

  Believe, Snacks, Canyons

  Paul Rudnick (2009). “I Shudder: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey”, Harper

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• They always mean beautiful things like hummingbirds. I always reply by saying that I think of a little child in east Africa with a worm burrowing through his eyeball. The worm cannot live in any other way, except by burrowing through eyeballs. I find that hard to reconcile with the notion of a divine and benevolent creator.

  David Attenborough

  Beautiful, Children, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Strong Women, Freedom, Europe

  Margaret Thatcher (2017). “On Europe”, p.1941, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Sweet, Nice, Men

  "What We Need in Our Next President" by Mike Medavoy, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2007.

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• 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

  Fighting, Differences, Parent

  Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books

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• Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.

  Mason Cooley

  Vanity, Spiteful, Hungry

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• He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.

  Mencius

  Wish, Rich

  Confucius, Mencius (1892). “中西四書”

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• 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

  Happiness, Brother, Growing Up

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• To my knowledge there are no good records that have been built by institutions run by committee. In almost all cases the great records are the product of individuals, perhaps working together, but always within a clearly defined framework. Their names are on the door and they are quite visible to the investing public. In reality outstanding records are made by dictators, hopefully benevolent, but nonetheless dictators.

  Peter Cundill

  Running, Reality, Doors

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• The soul of the truly benevolent man does not seem to reside much in his own body. Its life, to a great extent, is a mere reflex of the lives of others. It migrates into their bodies, and identifying its existence with their existence, finds its own happiness in increasing and prolonging their pleasures, in extinguishing or solacing their pains.

  Horace Mann

  Pain, Men, Soul

  Horace Mann (1867). “Lectures and Annual Reports on Education”, p.209

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• Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

  Immanuel Kant

  Kindness, Practice, Done

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• If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.

  Gerald Holton

  Freedom, Self, Views

  "Where is Science Taking Us? Gerald Holton Maps the Possible Routes". The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 18, 1981.

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• 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.

  Mao Zedong

  Communication, Mean, Army

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• I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

  David M. Kelley

  Personal Opinions, People, Way

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• I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

  Barry Humphries

  Secret, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  Quentin Smith

  Religion, Spirit, Ifs

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• There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Weakness, Needs

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.292, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity, the establishment of schools and hospitals, and the abolition of slavery.

  Ronald Reagan

  Bible, God, Religious

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• Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious policy has originated them; they form its highest praise and characteristic feature.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religious, Relief, Peculiar

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.205

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• I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.

  Gary Numan

  Lying, Dark, Light

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

  William A. Dembski

  Intelligent, Design, Possibility

  "Defeating Darwinism in Our Culture" panel discussion, National Religious Broadcasters meeting, Anaheim, February 06, 2000. "Why Darwin Matters". Book by Michael Shermer, 2006.

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• Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it.
  Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time.
  We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.

  Simon Van Booy

  Queens, Kings, Mean

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.272, Oneworld Publications

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