Altruistic Quotes

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If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing… — William Duncan Silkworth
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has… — Edward Said
When we are bad, we are worse than any primate that I know. And when we are good, we are actually better and more altruistic… — Frans de Waal
Humans can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet they're potentially more vicious than any other. They are the only ones who can… — Benjamin Spock
The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a stupa's construction and… — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government. — Michael Mandelbaum
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival… — Rebecca Solnit
We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit… — Jo Ann Davis
The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state. — Walton Goggins
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war. — Arundhati Roy
One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin's… — David Sloan Wilson
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. — Ingrid Newkirk
Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of… — Hanna Rosin
There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing… — Jodi Picoult
Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism,… — Mark Doty
Because people are ever willing to believe the negative over the positive. Itâ€™s easier for you to think me corrupt and evil than it is… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind… — Douglas Coupland
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. — Arundhati Roy
To forgive is not just to be altruistic. — Desmond Tutu
I had hoped to hear everyone discussing how much they missed my altruistic qualities, my legendary skills as a fighter and as a lover." He… — Maria V. Snyder

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