“True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important. — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict… — Peter Birks Copy Share Image
“The good shall prevail in the end, the truth shall be the rule and the Cameroonian soul shall be free,” Hans said… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Remember these, Sons! Truth presented with tenderness enriches the soul of man and enhances humanity in the process. A Franco-Cameroonian relation based… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man’s world is most serene when he has people to trust… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them… — Frank Sheed Copy Share Image
Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture… — Aldo Leopold 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 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
“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
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
“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
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
From my own experience I can tell you that when I practice altruism and care for others, it immediately makes me calmer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
“If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“What is there in this big wide world for a man to talk about with certainty besides his homeland, home and family?” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
A cigar," said the altruist, "a cigar, my good man, I cannot give you. But any time you need a light, just… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“In today’s world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Altruism, a jargon word for what used to be called love, is worse than weakness, it is sin, a violation of nature.… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
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