Benevolent Quotes - Page 4

• Lots of people today would never consider themselves guilty of idolatry as far as it is spelled out in the Ten Commandments, but by reducing God to some benevolent "man upstairs" whose only attributes are love and tolerance, and who could not care less about sin, they truly have transgressed God's commandment. They have created a god in their mind who does not actually exist and will on the day of judgment, not be able to offer them any help.

  Charlie Campbell

  Men, People, Tolerance

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• No creo que necesitemos estar de acuerdo con nadie para amar a la persona. El mandato de los cristianos de amar a la otra persona, de ser benevolentes y benéficos con ella, es independiente de lo que crea la otra persona.

  Miroslav Volf

  Christian, Believe, Independent

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• 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?

  Epicuro

  Atheist, Evil, Doe

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• 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.

  Anatole France

  Understanding, Way, Philosopher

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• If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Joy, Citizens

  Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.23

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• Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?

  L. Neil Smith

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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

  Ted Malloch

  Selfish, World, Conflict

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the benevolent god. To which I want to shake my fist and say: There is not one sweet thing about it. It is only bitter.

  Kyle Minor

  Suicide, Sweet, Teenage

  "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Una de las grandes ventajas del libre mercado es que es inherente e infatigablemente darwinista. Dejado a su suerte, un mercado libre acabará eliminando a los estúpidos de ambos extremos de la cadena alimentaria, también conocida como oferta y demanda. A medida que el dinero se libera de las manos de los estúpidos, los que venden productos o servicios a los estúpidos acaban perdiendo su cuota de mercado. Desprovisto de cualquier interferencia "benévola" del gobierno, el proceso es gloriosamente implacable, y no puede evitar producir una clase sucesivamente más inteligente de participantes.

  Edward Britton

  Hierba, Estupidez, Gobierno

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• While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Rights, Ordinary, Needs

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.182, Library of America

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• La vanidad en sus momentos de ocio es benévola, está tan dispuesta a dar placer como a recibirlo, y acepta como recompensa suficiente por sus servicios una palabra amable o una sonrisa de aprobación.

  Alexander Smith

  Vanity, Giving, Idlers

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.181

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• The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Party, Passion, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.49

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• I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

  Alfred Nobel

  Misántropo

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• Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.

  Simon Blackburn

  Bills, Able, Window

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Wheeler McMillen

  Mother, Nature, Home

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• Llegué a la conclusión de que había fracasado en algunos aspectos porque yo había sido más un narrador benevolente que el mundo que veía reflejado a mi alrededor y en las vidas de las personas de mi comunidad y de mi familia. No había un Dios benevolente que nos evitara el dolor, la pérdida, la pena y la lucha. Si iba a seguir escribiendo sobre el lugar de donde vengo y sobre el tipo de personas que viven en mi comunidad y que forman parte de mi familia, les debía ser sincero con cómo son nuestras vidas.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Pain, Grief, Struggle

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Y que las mejores cosas que hacemos los mayores, las hacemos por los niños, y que ellos inspiran un gran bien en nosotros. También quiero que recuerden que el mundo está entrelazado y que, por tanto, tenemos que ser amables en la forma en que nos tratamos unos a otros y a la Tierra, para que nuestro impacto en los demás sea benévolo y bueno.

  Maya Soetoro-Ng

  Children, Impact, Inspire

  "The First Sister Reflects on Family from Motherhood to Brother Barack". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 3, 2011.

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• La historia original de Zal, escrita por Ferdowsi, narra conmovedoramente la historia de un niño que tenía todas las de perder: lo dejaron morir en el desierto y un pájaro gigante y benévolo lo rescató y se convirtió en su ángel de la guarda. Esta historia me emocionó; siempre he querido escribir sobre ella.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Moving, Writing, Angel

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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

  Margaret Atwood

  Agradable, Pensar, Gente

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• Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.

  Aldous Huxley

  Practice, Tyrants, Majority

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.84, Transaction Publishers

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• Hoy lloro por mi país. La imagen de Estados Unidos ya no es la de un país fuerte pero benévolo guardián de la paz. ... En todo el mundo, nuestros amigos desconfían de nosotros, se discute nuestra palabra, se cuestionan nuestras intenciones. Alardeamos con arrogancia de nuestra condición de superpotencia.... Una vez finalizada la guerra, Estados Unidos tendrá que reconstruir mucho más que el país de Irak. Tendremos que reconstruir la imagen de Estados Unidos en todo el mundo.

  Robert Byrd

  País, Fuerte, Guerra

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• Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Insecurity, Promise, Overcoming

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• For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Christian, Lying, Responsibility

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• No man can possibly be benevolent or religious, to the full extent of his obligations, without concerning himself, to a greater or less extent, with the affairs of human government.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Religious, Men, Affair

  Charles Grandison Finney, George REDFORD (D.D.) (1851). “Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford”, p.357

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• I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels. We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all. A healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin, and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident, common sense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all...

  Tom Hanks

  Healing, Eye, Angel

  Tom Hanks' Academy Award Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1994.

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