A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“...History is the key to the unity of a people. Its nostalgia pulls them together. Its gloom separates them further. Its successes… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The altruism of foresters can serve as a motto for humanity in general: "We reap what we have not sown. We sow… — Leo Errera 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
Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Altruism is one of the most fundamentally social impulses, and doing things for others without expecting anything in return is core to… — Anonymous 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
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
“Would we argue that ten thousand target nuclear warheads are likely to enhance the prospect for our survival? What account would we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Lawyers are alright, I guess — but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around… — J.D. Salinger 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
“We have killed “duty” so that our ardent desire for free brotherhood acquires heroic valor in life. We have killed “pity” because… — Renzo Novatore 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
Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover,… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot… — Matthew Scully 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
We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is… — Richard Branson 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
“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.” — Annie Cohen-Solal Copy Share Image
“A writer needs a partner who can act as fuel to his artistic mind, yet has the great ability to sober him… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
“… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.” — Janvier Chando Copy Share Image
“I believe you’re a good fellow but you have yet to learn the dignity of altruism and the responsibility of the human… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Never allow yourself to be sapped of your extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
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