“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Charity is a song learnt by heart, while altruism is a hymn sung from the heart. — Anonymous 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
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Altruism, especially involving basic freedoms, can be what shareholders value most. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy. — Erol Ozan Copy Share Image
“True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando 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
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors.… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance, and respect for non-conformity. If they have no alternative on offer, they can be… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Such altruism, generated in the seclusion of one's own thoughts, becomes a subtle means of evading concrete inter-personal responsibility and of justifying… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Kid, let me tell you something. Most people spend their short time in this world less than half alive. They wander through… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
“The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them… — Frank Sheed Copy Share Image
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
![“People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for payback ranging from leaving a tip in a restaurant they will never visit again to throwing themselves on a live grenade to save their brothers in arms. [Robert]…” quote by Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/372/steven-pinker-526_altruism_people-do-more-for-their-fellows-than-re_1569267.jpg)
