Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
“A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you! — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those… — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism… — Henry Rollins 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
“ 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
“There is a big difference between the man who is trying to find a cool place in hell and the man who… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I've seen temples feed on fear, graves labeled as pride - I've seen nations crowned with glory, yet cruelty inside. But I've… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a… — Lee Atwater Copy Share Image
“Now I don’t see anything evil in a desire to make money. But money is only a means to some end. If… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their personal feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“7. The principle of reciprocal altruism—I’ll scratch your back if you’ll scratch mine”—is universal; people do not by nature give generously unless… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men… — Terence McKenna 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
One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original… — David Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Writers understand the world better, but they lack the strength to change it. Perhaps that is so because they understand their limitations… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando 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
“At the end of the day, developing goodness comes down to a simple question: Will this emotion, thought or action, increase or… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“Altruism is the kind of pie best eaten with a lot of gravy and little inspection of the kind of kidney it's… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism:… — Bart Starr Copy Share Image
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
