Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other… — Steven Pinker 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
“...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others… — Dalai Lama 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
Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“ Auguste Comte , in particular, whose social system, as unfolded in his Systeme de Politique Positive, aims at establishing (though by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to… — Dalai Lama 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
“Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“He himself didn't see it as exceptionally altruistic, because he had understood one can't be truly happy in isolation or, worse, among… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
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
