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Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.
— William A. Dembski
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
— Jimmy Sangster
We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spiritual: Spirit uplifted, soul ennobled, mind peaceful, body healthful, these are gems of benevolent being. Fill your all, with them all.
— Fahmy Attallah
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
— William Dean Howells
Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
— Mahatma Gandhi
PRESIDENT BARTLETT: See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.
— Aaron Sorkin
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.
— Jessica Bird
quantum moments are always benevolent.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
God's benevolent reign requires the principles of love
— Sunday Adelaja
So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Sometimes, we don't get what we want ... But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.
— Melody Beattie
When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.
— Thomas Day
I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator, albeit a benevolent one ... I would hope.
— Joanna Lumley
The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self ...
— Susanna Rowson
Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.
— Simon Blackburn
Success is not measured on what you earn, it is how you manage to be happy, benevolent and contented with your life.
— Sherwin Salinas
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.
— Chinua Achebe
I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.
— Paul Rudnick
But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy.
— Sue Monk Kidd
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
— Arthur C. Clarke
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.
— George Bernard Shaw
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
— Alfred Nobel
Vanity well fed is benevolent. Vanity hungry is spiteful.
— Mason Cooley
I'm a benevolent dictator.
— Harvey Weinstein
Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.
— Alden Bell
But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God. — Robert Burns
Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.
— John Kramer
The spirits rose like an ether that spun an arabesque and touched down as gently as a benevolent mask.
— Patti Smith
When a man has been highly honored and has eaten a little he is most benevolent.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Benevolent throne set someplace high up on the moon.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.
— Stephen Harrigan
Somewhere, somewhere in this house, lurked a problem. For some reason, Jane's legacy wasn't entirely benevolent.
— Charlaine Harris
The concept of the benevolent dictator, just like the concepts of the noble thief or the honest whore, is no more than a meaningless fantasy.
— Alaa Al Aswany
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.
— Harold Ramis
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.
— Hamza Yusuf
Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009
— Richard Holmes
Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
— Scott Dikkers
A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.
— Jaiprakash Gaur
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
— Dana Rohrabacher
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
— William McKinley
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man ...
— Thomas Jefferson
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Red is a benevolent dictatorship.
— James Jannard
Wine is the benevolent god, who gives back gaiety to men and restores youth to the old.
— Michel De Montaigne
He was not my actual father-who would have loved me and spent time with me-but a benevolent and vaguely important figure named Mr. Brown
— Gillian Flynn
Benevolent hands reach down from heaven to offer us the most hopeful warning and remedy: Prepare to meet your God.
— Billy Graham
Is his benevolent art meant to distract us from Prospero's absolutist exercise of authority over his subjects?
— James Shapiro
I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.
— Samuel Adams
Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.
— Honore De Balzac
The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
— Walter Lippmann
The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.
— Felix O. Hartmann
Eleven Benevolent Elephants. Yeah! Say that five times real fast.
— Donald Allen Kirch
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
— Margaret Atwood
The aim of spiritual life is to awaken a joyful freedom, a benevolent and compassionate heart in spite of everything.
— Jack Kornfield
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
If there's a better definition of love than mutual benevolent insanity, I haven't heard it.
— Leah Raeder
perhaps that's what we thought we were. Benevolent gods.Now look at us. — Stephen Lloyd Jones
Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist ... I can digest philosophy better than food.
— Alfred Nobel
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.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.
— Mary Shelley
The Six Ways of Ruling are about being benevolent, true, genuine, fearless, artful, and rejoicing.
— Lodro Rinzler
dolphins are not the benevolent mammals we'd like them to be; those beaming faces hide the minds of assassins.
— Philip Hoare
If an all-powerful, benevolent God allows untold suffering, then that God is either not all-powerful or not benevolent.
— James W. Mercer
I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.
— Barry Humphries
In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently requiredacting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.
— Ted Malloch
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.
— Thomas Paine
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
— William Makepeace Thackeray