Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped. — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest....” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“When somebody you love dies, a phase of life’s innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“ Sounds Is Love of All, the World Sounds create soulful existence, When the oceans tide, it is sound; When fervency of… — John Shelton Jones 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
“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. — Collis Potter Huntington Copy Share Image
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism. — Samantha Power 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
“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
“Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for them: fair-weather friends. These sham… — Steven Pinker 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
I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important. — Isabel Paterson 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
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. — Greg Bear 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
“I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of… — Jaye Robin Brown Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
