Altruism Quote by Ilona Andrews

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

— Richard Dawkins

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

— Christina Stead

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

— Greg Bear

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

— Adam Yauch

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

— Max Beerbohm

There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.

— Peter Singer

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

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

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

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

— Frank Grillo

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

— David Rakoff