“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
“When singers, actors or artists touch on sorrow, they are trying to give comfort to aggrieved souls by giving some meaning to… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane… — His Holiness the Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“...A legendary leader distinguishes himself as someone who gets ahead of his people from an impasse and futile general consensus, and then… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“...We find our greatest peace when we embrace something that gives meaning to our lives. Often, it is love for somebody or… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“You don’t remember it, but when you were a baby… someone protected and helped you, too. The strong protect the weak. Then… — Koyoharu Gotouge Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
“Not many musicians can get 10000 people to show up and help pay his back taxes, and when farmers are going broke… — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“7. The principle of reciprocal altruism—I’ll scratch your back if you’ll scratch mine”—is universal; people do not by nature give generously unless… — Michael Shermer 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
“My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
“Now I don’t see anything evil in a desire to make money. But money is only a means to some end. If… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
“Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you! — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
“A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“Feelings, rationale and values are the top qualities that make a person exceedingly human.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Many of our moments of prosociality, of altruism and Good Samaritanism, are acts of restitution, attempts to counter our antisocial moments. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
