Altruism Quote by Christina Stead Download Open image “Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.” — Christina Stead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altruism Fields Generosity Glasses Imagination Pairs Selfishness
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
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… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up. — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And I think… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
You seem cynical because you're always talking about that selfish behavior that's dressed up as altruism. It doesn't mean there isn't altruism. It just… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is splendid—to be—loved! If we only—can—live up—to the thoughts—of us—by them—that love us!” — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid to write to your father: he criticizes my spelling,” sneered Henny. “And it appears I know nothing about geography. Hang his stuck-up… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“you do not know what she did not only to me but to the little children. She has tortured them, turned them against me,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“Hair under the arms, for example, he said, should never be removed, for nature had put it there, and evidently it had some use.… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“A month before our marriage, I knew it would be a well-nigh hopeless union, yet so great is a young man’s idea of what… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“For a moment, after years of scamping, she felt the dread power of wifehood; they were locked in each other’s grasp till the end—the… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“...True classical dropouts in society are those who avoid difficult challenges and cling to the first opportunity that comes their way. They never test… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don’t want to be a slave to external powers.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
“Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“…the purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Effective altruism is the form of altruism in which we bring our rational capacities to bear in order to do the most good that… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Societies and people that come close to being happy are those that do well in narrowing the disparity between their desires and their needs,… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
![“[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f16/ayn-rand-59_altruism_altruism-is-a-moral-system-which-holds-t_311034.jpg)
