“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The Service without Hope Is tenderest, I think-- ... There is no Diligence like that That knows not an Until — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people’s way of life...” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“…what else do we have to ensure our sanity except our love for something beyond ourselves―our love for our families, our love… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don’t want to be a slave to external powers.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism. — Don Watson Copy Share Image
“It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Acknowledging someone is an act of altruism in the first place, so converting that act of altruism into a pizza party or… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
“It also comes as a surprise that the term was invented not to talk about altruism or acts of kindness, but to… — Damion Searls Copy Share Image
All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble… — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
“[Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Finally I teach the joys of altruism. Many adolescent girls are self-absorbed. It's not a character flaw, it's a developmental stage. Nonetheless,… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“If the foot had never realized it belonged to the body, & that there never was a body on which it depended,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“givers always score high on other-interest, but they vary in self-interest. There are two types of givers, and they have dramatically different… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Successful socialism depends on the perfectibility of man. Unless all, or nearly all, men are high-minded and clear-sighted, it isbound to be… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
“No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Most of our brains are out, but it is good what they did for themselves by leaving this country. They are Cameroon’s… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“No one was interested in Malabo - this was why the people in the village must have suspected him of having a… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. — Jean Giraudoux 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