Altruism Quote by David Rakoff

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

— Max Beerbohm

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

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial…

— Neill Blomkamp

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

— Richard Dawkins

One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most…

— Lynne McTaggart

There is a whole field of inquiry that has come up in the last 30 or 40 years - some call it sociobiology or…

— Richard Dawkins

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

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of…

— Lewis Thomas

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

— Greg Bear

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…

— Stephen Dunn

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