Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Friendship is that form of altruism that takes its strides faster than anything else does.” — Deepak Rana Copy Share Image
“In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando 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
“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
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
“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.… — Anonymous 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
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't changed for thousands of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Each of us spends money on things that we do not really need. You could take the money you're spending on those… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
“The Linux world behaves in many respects like a free market or an ecology, a collection of selfish agents attempting to maximize… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original… — David Sloan Wilson 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
“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
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
“...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
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
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
“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism:… — Bart Starr Copy Share Image
“Altruism is the kind of pie best eaten with a lot of gravy and little inspection of the kind of kidney it's… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day, developing goodness comes down to a simple question: Will this emotion, thought or action, increase or… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando 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
