Best Altruism Words
147 Altruism quotes by 101 unique authors
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
— Marshall McLuhan
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
— H. L. Mencken
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I never know how much of what I say is true.
— Bette Midler
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Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and…
— Steven Pinker
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No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
— Plautus
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
— Samantha Power
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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
— Ayn Rand
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
— Will Rogers
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Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the…
— Lewis Thomas
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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
— Gore Vidal
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Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
— Bill Watterson
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
— Oscar Wilde
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
— Oscar Wilde
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
— E. O. Wilson
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
— E. O. Wilson
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
— Hector Hugh Munro
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I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
— Woody Allen
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Altruism is for those who can't endure their desires. There's a world as ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moan our earnest neighbors might think…
— Stephen Dunn
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
— Richard Dawkins
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Is this what you have in mind,' I asked the Dalai Lama, 'when you say in teachings that the buddhas and bodhisattvas of the world…
— Dalai Lama
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The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
— Jasper Fforde
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Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.
— Raymond E. Feist
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