A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“...There is no greater dividing force in this world than self-interest…” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Friendship is that form of altruism that takes its strides faster than anything else does.” — Deepak Rana Copy Share Image
“In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando 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
“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
“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
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
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
“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“...Never opt for war, no matter how simple it may seem, especially when you know that peace is achievable, even if achieving… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Love is not feeling, child, nor even the passion of lovers, which always seeks only its own gratification. It is the act… — Patricia Duncker Copy Share Image
“Kid, let me tell you something. Most people spend their short time in this world less than half alive. They wander through… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Such altruism, generated in the seclusion of one's own thoughts, becomes a subtle means of evading concrete inter-personal responsibility and of justifying… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Sons, any man who is considered a success in life owes a lot to society. We have been very blessed, my dear… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
The only justifiable stopping place for for the expansion of altruism is the point at which all whose welfare can be affected… — Peter Singer 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
I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
“…the truest feeling of happiness is the security that comes with being loved.” — 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
“...At the end of the day, what matters is our faith in humanity...” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.” — Janvier Chando 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
