Altruism Quote by Ayn Rand

“Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification of his…

— Ayn Rand

Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a…

— Andrew Bernstein

Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to…

— Ayn Rand

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual…

— Thomas Nagel

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus…

— Ayn Rand

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active…

— Aurora Levins Morales

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Such altruism, generated in the seclusion of one's own thoughts, becomes a subtle means of evading concrete inter-personal responsibility and of justifying to oneself…

— Stephen Batchelor

Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that…

— Peter Singer

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

— Christina Stead