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Tag Name "Beneficence" (23)

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Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
Adam Smith
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Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.
Giacomo Leopardi
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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
Jane Addams
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
John Dryden
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In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.
Maimonides
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The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.
Plutarch
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The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
Samuel Johnson
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We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
Woodrow Wilson
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One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe
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Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.
Dawna Markova
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All other love is extinguished by self-love beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
Epicurus
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Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.
George Canning
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I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
Harry S. Truman
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.
John Calvin
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It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.
Lyman Abbott
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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary the power of religion is love and beneficence
Moses Mendelssohn
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Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!
Saadi
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The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
Thomas Paine
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Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.
Zicheng Hong
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But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice.
Charles Darwin
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I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
Dean Alfange
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Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.
Francesco Guicciardini
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May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence
George Washington