However great an evil immorality may be we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur whether they copy these in advance or not.

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry an inquiry I trust not merely speculative but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope of its becoming essentially beneficial to mankind.

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.

Something's happened in our society which I don't think is beneficial and that's that you see the public being fed box-office news. Newscasts now every local station - I've been traveling around the country a lot and you see the local news and they give box-office reports.

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.

Your relationship with an agent has got to be mutually beneficial. If you can't help their careers then they're not going to be interested.

I guess music particularly the blues is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy never become beneficial.