Benevolence Quotes & Sayings
These benevolence quotes, sayings and quotations are from our famous quotes collection. Inspirational quotes, sayings and quotations.Of neighbourhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence. - Confucius
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigour is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things. - Confucius
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. - Baruch 'Benedict De' Spinoza
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. - Horace Mann
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the coloured peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence, it is atonement. - Albert Schweitzer
'But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. 'Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. 'Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!' [A Christmas Carol] - Charles Dickens
To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive. - Samuel Johnson
There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love; Brothers in peace, not rivals in command. - Homer