Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better. — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings. — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
“Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In… — Arthur Melvin Okun Copy Share Image
“Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors.… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance, and respect for non-conformity. If they have no alternative on offer, they can be… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Kid, let me tell you something. Most people spend their short time in this world less than half alive. They wander through… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Such altruism, generated in the seclusion of one's own thoughts, becomes a subtle means of evading concrete inter-personal responsibility and of justifying… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
“A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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