A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SenecaTags: gifts benefits intentions
The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.
Theodore DalrympleThe critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.
Carl CohenTags: justice prison experimentation issues benefits
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."
[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]
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For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.
Victor HugoTaxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food.
Jill LeporeTags: wealth society environment government poverty business taxes general-welfare disasters property benefits emergencies common-defense domestic-tranquility
A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.
Muhammad YunusTags: inspirational education university benefits neighbours knoweldge
The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor.
Bryant McGillTags: generations cause-and-effect benefits
We have already compared the benefits of theology and science. When the theologian governed the world, it was covered with huts and hovels for the many, palaces and cathedrals for the few. To nearly all the children of men, reading and writing were unknown arts. The poor were clad in rags and skins -- they devoured crusts, and gnawed bones. The day of Science dawned, and the luxuries of a century ago are the necessities of to-day. Men in the middle ranks of life have more of the conveniences and elegancies than the princes and kings of the theological times. But above and over all this, is the development of mind. There is more of value in the brain of an average man of to-day -- of a master-mechanic, of a chemist, of a naturalist, of an inventor, than there was in the brain of the world four hundred years ago.
These blessings did not fall from the skies. These benefits did not drop from the outstretched hands of priests. They were not found in cathedrals or behind altars -- neither were they searched for with holy candles. They were not discovered by the closed eyes of prayer, nor did they come in answer to superstitious supplication. They are the children of freedom, the gifts of reason, observation and experience -- and for them all, man is indebted to man.
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We are in a mutually dependent society, called civilization, and government is the oil that keeps it running and the lifeblood that carries oxygen to the various parts of the civic body.
Jack LessenberryTags: society civilization government benefits civics
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