Benefits Quotes

“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”
― Seneca, Moral Essays: Volume III

“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they're going to tell your business to other people. If they say, "You know I heard........." More than likely it's in their character to share false information. Beware of your box, circle, square! Whatever you want to call it.”
― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny

“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)]”
― Earl Warren

“Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

“...anxiety is vilified,
underrated,
for its value
and benefits.

Those with anxiety can be
more thoughtful about all the possibilities
that might play out,
more prepared for threatening situations,
more empathetic to others' feelings
(whether overtly expressed or not).”
― Shellen Lubin

“The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.”
― Carl Cohen

“The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, So Little Done: The Testament of a Serial Killer

“We ourselves
are as much a result of the work we do
as the product of that work will ever be.”
― Shellen Lubin

“I believe the Law of the Land should allow migrants three months on benefits and then the benefits cease”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“The success and failure of an agreement is a result of how expectations, conditions, benefits, and consequences are understood and managed.”
― David Benedict Zumbo

“The benefits (of smiling) not only has an ability of changing your momentary condition, but it is capable of having a prolonged effect upon the physiological makeup and structure of your brain.”
― Asa Don Brown

“some people always get more than their share of equality than others”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

“When you have developed ill health, you may find that there are past employer benefits you are entitled to.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“With an agreement comes expectations, conditions, benefits, and consequences.”
― David Benedict Zumbo

“With an agreement comes expectations, conditions, benefits and consequences.”
― David Benedict Zumbo

“The oppressed receive the euphemistic title of 'welfare recipients'. They are treated as individual cases, as marginal men who deviate from the general configuration of a 'good, organised, and just' society. The oppressed are regarded as the pathology of the healthy society, which must therefore adjust these 'incompetent and lazy' folk to its own patterns by changing their mentality. These marginals need to be 'integrated', 'incorporated' into the healthy society that they have 'forsaken'.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“Welfare programmes as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anaesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems. They splinter the oppressed into groups of individuals hoping to get a few more benefits for themselves.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“Would you like a government that denied you your earned disability benefits when you became too sick to work?”
― Steven Magee

“Real estate investing is the best thing that can happen to anyone in the world. With perseverance, you can reap the maximum benefits of your real estate investment.”
― Olawale Daniel

“There is an effort underway in the USA by the rich to have workers working really long hours for not a lot of money or benefits.”
― Steven Magee

“I suddenly realized the goal of Christianity was not merely to implement God into my life and schedule, but to give Him my life. To be a Christian means I willingly surrender my identity to Him. To belong to Him means that my life does not belong to me any longer. If I wanted to reap the benefits of belonging to Him, He needed to come first now, not me. His words, His decisions, His guidance, His person, and my relationship with Him needed to be placed above all else. I needed to stop demanding my own way and start following His.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Listen to good advice and kind warnings. They're for your benefit.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Those benefiting from your ignorance will never try to enlighten you. Never.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“The USA is the modern version of slavery.”
― Steven Magee

“Everything that is due to me is going to be given to me.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“defining who is to be protected is in effect defining who is not to be protected”
― Stephen D. King, Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History

“Try to be around good people because if they don't benefit you, they will give inner peace.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Facing this horizon, it is our collective wisdom that will shape AI's impact, melding technology with the depth of human values to unlock a future where progress and ethics walk hand in hand. If we fail to guide this journey thoughtfully, we risk unleashing forces that diverge from our cherished principles. Thus, we stand at a pivotal moment, where our actions today will decide whether AI becomes a beacon of hope or a mirror reflecting our greatest challenges.”
― Farshad Asl