Benevolent Quotes

(on the Iraq war) My druthers would have been, "Get a more benevolent dictator and stick him in. You know, try somebody a little less mean." You don`t go in there and fire the army. The army`s got to do something. When you fire `em, you leave them all unemployed. Worst thing in the world. Just get somebody else who they respect and bring him on your side. That`s one way of doing it.

We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters: that is, of political critics who, if they cannot govern in person for lack of spare energy or specific talent for administration, can at least recognize and appreciate capacity and benevolence in others, and so govern through capably benevolent representatives? Where are such voters to be found today? Nowhere.

Basically, both the Mafia and America feel they are benevolent organizations. And both the Mafia and America have their hands stained with blood from what it is necessary to do to protect their power and interests.

We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there`s another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.

I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that`s the way it should be.

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Clearly, children`s charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

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.

Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

When a benevolent mind contemplates the republic of Lycurgus, its admiration is mixed with a degree of horror.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

He also has spent millions on children with AIDS, ... We can drown them with examples of where Mr. Jackson has been so benevolent, so generous, so charitable, so giving for good causes, that it will make their theory look silly.

If commerce is the engine of our economy, then advertising is the spark. Responsible advertisers are the drivers who keep us on the right track, leading to a richer, more benevolent society.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.