The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.
David Hume

The concept of doing something with child benefit, of changing the rules around child benefit, is something that has been being discussed for some time.
Theresa May

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
Bruce Jackson

The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to give it memory value.
Morris Hite

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
Robert Toombs

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.
Cyrano de Bergerac

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
Barbara Amiel

The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.
Jesse James Garrett

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
Ernestine Rose

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.
Stokely Carmichael

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Milton Friedman

The nation will benefit in the long term if it continues to be open to foreign expertise. This will help the country to establish its business culture and environment faster, based on international best practice.
Hassanal Bolkiah

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
Steve Ballmer

The old approach of sacrificing the needs of one group to benefit another just won't work.
Michael K. Simpson

The only people who benefit from lawsuits are lawyers. I think we made a couple of them rich.
Gavin Rossdale

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Michael Nesmith

The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year.
Mark Kennedy

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Dan Quayle