Benign Quotes

Benign Quote of the day

Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

The Holocaust teaches us that nature, even in its cruelest moments, is benign in comparison with man when he loses his moral compass and his reason.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

...music is sometimes the only benign avenue of communication between antagonists.

To be a flamboyant failure, that's better than being any kind of benign success

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign.

Dynamic benign neglect.

There is no explanation in the Big Bang theory for the seemingly fortuitous fact that the density of matter has just the right value for the evolution of a benign, life supporting universe.

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

New York City is a mismanaged carnival of stupidity that is desperate for revenue and anxious to criminalize behavior once thought benign.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

Benign neglect, bordering on sloth, remains the hallmark of our investment process.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

I've got two young kids. I don't know what the future holds.

To one American family out of four, the idea of capitalism as a benign system of comfort , dignity , and personal advance is only a myth , or worse, a bitter mockery.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

Easter celebrations are evidence of the increased benign influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and other traditional churches in our country on society.

Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift

Some Harvard guy said that acid would open our minds, pot wouldn't hurt us, and cocaine was benign.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation.

How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

I find it personally distracting when kids are constantly texting, but they can be texting something that is just benign and just fine.

Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

Pity is a benign form of abuse.

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

The internet is like a surround system, a landscape at its most benign, a closed system of surveillance and self-surveillance at its more sinister. Something we can no longer imagine an outside of.

While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.

Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!

For people who live their lives in classical music the Three Tenors is a kind of benign tumor: unsightly but not life threatening.

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

Just heard the best word in the English language: benign. (And I don't need to see that doctor again for five years.)

Unused creativity is not benign.

You get thought of in terms of your last job. So if my last job is that of a meat cleaver-wielding character, I will hardly be cast as some benign, older gentleman.

No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them?

What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers.