Best Altruism Quotes
147 Altruism quotes by 101 unique authors
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A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up…
— Unknown Author
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All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.
— Douglas Horton
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In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
— Jean Renoir
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Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
— Douglas Horton
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The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.
— Douglas Horton
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The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number…
— Garrison Keillor
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The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.
— Andre Breton
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Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.
— Unknown Author
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It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.
— Don Watson
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Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion…
— Carl Sagan
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Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among…
— Thomas Nagel
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I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me…
— Sergio Leone
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Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration…
— Aurora Levins Morales
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In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
— John Buchanan Robinson
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I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see…
— Matthew Scully
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Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long…
— Dalai Lama
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While it is true that the taking of life not yet born or in it's final stages is sometimes marked by a mistaken sense of…
— Pope John Paul II
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Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond…
— Dalai Lama
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The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.
— Isabel Paterson
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Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted…
— Unknown Author
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Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter…
— Stephanie Mills
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Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe…
— David Riesman
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