“To drink poison and deliver elixir is the first nature of a sapiens.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think it's really easy to be the altruistic hero of your own narrative and story. — Finneas Copy Share Image
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance -- — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Too many members of the U.N. benefit from the status quo and won't make decisions for purely altruistic reasons. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
“I wasn't exactly sure that getting someone a job as a porn star was completely altruistic. But maybe I was being judgemental.” — Marshall Thornton 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
With our brains and our smarts and our altruistic capability, we can do a lot of good. — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“Why would you think that? Even in your Bible, we’re harbingers of doom, willing and able to destroy entire cities. Just because… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is… — Roger Wicker Copy Share Image
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can… — Levitt & Dubner Copy Share Image
I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“The world is coursing through my blood, I can live without myself, but not the world. You can take me away from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business.… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
There is an obvious evolutionary explanation for the scarcity of altruistic saints: Without a strong predilection for their own interests, our ancestors… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Angels are violent creatures.” “So I noticed. I used to think they were all sweet and kind.” “Why would you think that?… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
A wider of more altruistic attitude is very relevant in today's world. If we look at the situation from various angles, such… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We're selfish to some degree, that's not a criticism and it doesn't mean that we are all narcissists. But in any situation… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Otherish givers may appear less altruistic than selfless givers, but their resilience against burnout enables them to contribute more.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“This isn't as altruistic as it looks. Men like this don't do anything out of kindness. There's always something in it for… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
“If you're lucky enough to live without want, it's a natural impulse to be altruistic to others.” — Moutasem Algharati Copy Share Image
Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up. — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda. — Tsem Tulku Copy Share Image
“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Feelings and emotion ran through my veins like a hurricane. And that's when everything began to look like poetry. —You look like… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
