Altruism Quote by John Lancaster Spalding Download Open image “Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.” — John Lancaster Spalding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altruism Barbarism Generosity Language Love Love is
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves. The relationship produces nothing but mutual corruption. It is impossible in concept. The nearest approach to it in reality -- the man who lives to serve others -- is the slave. If physical slavery is repulsive,… — ayn rand Copy Share
And in the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as a civilizing factor in the sense that… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Love is the most complex of all human phenomena. It exists on a spectrum from tolerance and kindness to romantic love and self-sacrifice, reaching… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's a universal desire to love and to be loved and, despite trying circumstances, to still fight for the good. — Tiya Sircar Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Worry, whatever its source, weakens, takes away courage, and shortens life. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
The zest of life lies in right doing, not in the garnered harvest. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
What we think out for ourselves forms channels in which other thoughts will flow. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain… — John Lancaster Spalding 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
