Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
“A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.” — Annie Cohen-Solal Copy Share Image
“A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Huh! Mankind always comes up with ideas to make up for the follies of the status quo. But what happens if those… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Would we argue that ten thousand target nuclear warheads are likely to enhance the prospect for our survival? What account would we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism… — Frank Prochaska Copy Share Image
the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity,… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy.… — Jackson Burnett Copy Share Image
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
If a man speculates on what 'society' should do for the poor, he accepts thereby the collectivist premise that men's lives belong… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I don't really care if people forget me. My legacy wasn't about me. It was about everything I could do for another.… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure. — Sally Satel Copy Share Image
Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“I believe you’re a good fellow but you have yet to learn the dignity of altruism and the responsibility of the human… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Never allow yourself to be sapped of your extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
“… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.” — Janvier Chando Copy Share Image
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