Beneficial Quotes

Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. (Friedrich Hayek)
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. View quote
Ron Paul
To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic; but to dispense them worthily must, surely, be more beneficial to mankind. View quote
Frances Burney
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority. View quote
Livy
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. View quote
Peter Kropotkin
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. View quote
Marcel Proust
But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial. View quote
Aristide Briand
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. View quote
William Blake
One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut. View quote
Eric Clapton
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. (Alva Myrdal)
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. View quote
Mike Fitzpatrick
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. View quote
David Rockefeller
Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws and are found to be safe and beneficial. View quote
Martin Van Buren
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players. View quote
Kofi Annan
As a great socialist power the Soviet Union is fully aware of its responsibility to the peoples for preserving and strengthening peace. We are open to peaceful, mutually beneficial cooperation with states on all continents. We are for the peaceful settlement of all disputable international problems through serious, equal, and constructive talks. View quote
Konstantin Chernenko
By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others. View quote
Frédéric Bastiat
I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people. View quote
Robert E. Lee
By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror-like mind, which reflects all, without being affected. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
My position is to listen to my constituents, learn from the best information available and ultimately make sound, rational decisions that are going to be beneficial to the people of the 8th Congressional District. (Gabrielle Giffords)
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits. View quote
Livy
Beneficent spirals, operating by benign feedback, mean that everything needful is not required at once: each individual improvement is beneficial for the whole. View quote
Jane Jacobs
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed. View quote
Charles M. Schulz
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge. View quote
Yukteswar Giri