Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Compassion is not something you have; it is something you share.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation… — Gina Maranto 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
“What we value so much, the altruistic “good” side of human nature, can also have a dark side. Altruism can be the… — Barbara Oakley 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
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
“Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me… — Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil Copy Share Image
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“...of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The Romans construed Jesus Chris’s crucifixion as a defeat, but what do we have today? Christianity triumphed. Jesus Christ never betrayed himself,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this… — Vikram Seth 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
Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace.… — Dalai Lama 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
“My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.” — Janvier Chando Copy Share Image
“...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.” — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“…the truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
