The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism. — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
“The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“What we value so much, the altruistic “good” side of human nature, can also have a dark side. Altruism can be the… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
“Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation… — Gina Maranto Copy Share Image
I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the… — Dustin Lance Black Copy Share Image
“Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance, and respect for non-conformity. If they have no alternative on offer, they can be… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
“...only the dreamers of a dream are capable of translating their dreams into worthy practical endeavors that are devoid of haunting errors.… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“...The people’s hero does not only have to be someone in possession of the scepter of power. It can be anyone capable… — Janvier Chando Copy Share Image
I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, asking about this… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“The Romans construed Jesus Chris’s crucifixion as a defeat, but what do we have today? Christianity triumphed. Jesus Christ never betrayed himself,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
None of us are rational economic men as we're supposed to be portrayed in economic theory where mixes of passions, of desires,… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“...of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Never give up the freeness of your soul. Live your duty to mankind, nurture creatures of this world as a true mother… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man’s worst selfish instincts.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turns, in sorrow or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism. — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
“Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
