Altruistic Quotes

57 Altruistic quotes by 51 unique authors

• 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. It’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
• Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will… — Mark Levin
• We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic. — Gary Chapman
• Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it. — Richard Dawkins
• These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second… — Bertrand Russell
• I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international… — John Ridley
• Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest… — P.J. O'Rourke
• When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated… — Charles Duhigg
• We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But the main reason we do foreign assistance is we do it… — Roger Wicker
• One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic… — Andrew Mason

Who Wrote These Altruistic Quotes

51 authors contributed a total of 57 Altruistic Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Altruistic Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
• 2 Altruistic Quotes by David Sloan Wilson
• 2 Altruistic Quotes by Dalai Lama
• 2 Altruistic Quotes by Bertrand Russell
• 2 Altruistic Quotes by Arundhati Roy
• 2 Altruistic Quotes by Anuj Somany
• 1 Altruistic Quote by William Duncan Silkworth
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Walton Goggins
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• 1 Altruistic Quote by Tsem Tulku
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Theodore Beale
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Roger Wicker
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Roger N. Walsh
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Robert J. Havighurst
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Richard J. Foster
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Richard Dawkins
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Rebecca Solnit
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Quentin Crisp
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Prince Haravinthan
• 1 Altruistic Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Odell Shepard
• 1 Altruistic Quote by MrAwesome
• 1 Altruistic Quote by Mortimer Adler