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Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because… — Richard Dawkins
Because I took an oath to help people. To protect them from The League and any corrupt government. (Devyn) Yeah, and I know people better… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions. — George Eliot
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness… — Dalai Lama
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. — Jane Goodall
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render… — Adam Smith
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. — Arundhati Roy
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. — A A Milne
At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill… — Ilona Andrews
The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism… — John Green
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. — Albert Pike
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. — Dalai Lama
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. — Jonathan Haidt
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt… — Isabella Rossellini
Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go… — Isabella Rossellini
We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in… — Bart Starr
Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research… — David Mixner
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. — Mother Teresa
And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the sense that it… — Sigmund Freud
Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed. — Unknown Author

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