Altruism Quote by Mignon McLaughlin Download Open image “Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.” — Mignon McLaughlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Altruism Generosity Hard Masters Opportunism
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
[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
There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
“Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification of his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings. — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to… — Ayn Rand 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
Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective altruists -… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always… — Levitt & Dubner Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin 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