“You will achieve what you want to achieve, only if you can cope with the theory of altruism.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Don’t be afraid of those failures that do not lead to a loss of life or that do not incapacitate people.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work.… — Emmanuelle Beart Copy Share Image
We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don’t know… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped. — David Rakoff 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
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
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
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
“Do not expect too much of others. ... . This is to expect of another a degree of altruism which is contrary… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and… — Cormac McCarthy 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
“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
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
“Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can’t directly influence things.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando 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
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism. — Don Watson Copy Share Image
“He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food. — Dean McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of… — Jon Weber Copy Share Image
“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. — Anonymous 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
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
