Altruism Quotes

“World, my valentine.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Tithing is the antithesis of altruism”

— Al Stefanelli

There's no such thing as altruism.

— Andrew Tobias

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“At what point is normal natural?”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

What are you doing for others?

— Martin Luther King, Jr

You don’t pay back, you pay forward.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Humankind, my valentine!”

— Abhijit Naskar

“My purpose is to examine the biology of selfishness and altruism.”

— Richard Dawkins

“The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

— Scott Adams

I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.

— Woody Allen

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

— George Eliot

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

— Raymond E. Feist

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

— Arundhati Roy

An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.

— Elbert Hubbard

“Never allow yourself to be sapped of your extraordinary energy that is the necessary ingredient for creating something new and progressive.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism,…

— Jonathan Haidt

“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

“… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.”

— Janvier Chando

... 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

“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

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.

— Sally Satel

Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find…

— Robert Owen

Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism…

— Frank Prochaska

“Would we argue that ten thousand target nuclear warheads are likely to enhance the prospect for our survival? What account would we…

— Carl Sagan

Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us…

— Karen Armstrong

“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

“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

As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is…

— Jim Nollman

“...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

“We are the center. In each of our minds - some may call it arrogance, or selfishness - we are the center,…

— R.A. Salvatore

A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often…

— Gore Vidal

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of…

— Ayn Rand

“Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of…

— Robert Wright

Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that…

— Richard Dawkins

Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace.…

— Dalai Lama

“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just…

— Roman Payne

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