False benevolence Quotes

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what ‘my own good’ truly was

Don't ever take advice from anyone who starts a sentence with, 'You may not like me for this, but it's for your own good - ' It never is.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

The symptoms of compassion and benevolence, in some people, are like those minute guns which warn you that you are in deadly peril.

The best villains are the nicest guys in person.

Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose, he would perhaps have done better to powder his countenance also, for there was something in its very wrinkles, and in his cold restless eye, which seemed to tell of cunning that would announce itself in spite of him.