Benevolent Quotes

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame. Sun Tzu
Good Benevolent Commander Fame
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Adam Smith
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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. Thomas Jefferson
Life Friendship Sunshine Thanks Benevolent Shade Only Part Greater Arrangement Precious
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire
Government Best Tyranny Benevolent Tempered Occasional Assassination
Humans have an amazing capacity to believe in contradictory things. For example, to believe in an omnipotent and benevolent God but somehow excuse Him from all the suffering in the world. Or our ability to believe from the standpoint of law that humans are equal and have free will and from biology that humans are just organic machines. Yuval Noah Harari
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We talk a lot about building benevolent technology. Our technology reflects our values. Fei-Fei Li
Technology Values Building Our Benevolent About Talk Lot Reflects
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. William McKinley
Benevolent States Mission United United States Assimilation
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes. Miroslav Volf
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Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work. Ann Nocenti
Work Fashion Hide Big Profit Benevolent Corporation Possible Run See Some Days Industrial Make Practices Companies Rotten Even Margins
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition. Aristotle
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee. Camille Claudel
Art Myself Men Benevolent Would Fact Emperor Generous Sahara Am In Fact Interested Plague Flee Cholera Show Who Plaster Agreed Even
I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic. David M. Kelley
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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
Man Rain Passion Benevolent Would He Merciful Over Mistaken Duck His Umbrella Held Shower
My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator. Edgar Mitchell
Myself Home Me Wife Think Benevolent Tells Admit Democratic Pig Sort Am Male Very Dictator Office
I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways. Fei-Fei Li
Positive People AI Believe Benefit Benevolent Ways
There is great potential to use computer vision technology in a constructive and benevolent way. Fei-Fei Li
Great Technology Vision Benevolent Way Potential Constructive Computer Use
Red is a benevolent dictatorship. James Jannard
Dictatorship Benevolent Red
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
Politics Hope Too Benevolent Would Impatient Could Never Because Go Dictator Want Far Albeit
Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money. John McCarthy
Work Work Hard Money Few Enough Benevolence Benevolent Out Occupations Either Them Hard Socialists Alas
We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people. Kazuo Ishiguro
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Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays. Margaret Atwood
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We can't wait until elections to fight for what we care about. We can't hope for a benevolent leader who may choose to listen to us. We need a network that lets the best ideas and leaders rise to the top through an open, inclusive democratic process. Mark Pincus
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There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth. Matt Mullenweg
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Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories? Maureen Dowd
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It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view. Mike Medavoy
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I think there are presences out there that we can't see or directly communicate with that have benevolent influence on us. Whether they're angels or something else, I'm not sure. Misha Collins
Communicate Think Else Benevolent Out See Angels Something Something Else Directly Sure Influence Whether Us
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