Altruism Quotes
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Isn't reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Some people live their memorable years fighting against their basic instincts only to succumb in the end to what was actually good for them.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.
— Rebecca McNutt
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
— E. O. Wilson
We love out of compassion, passion or a sense of commitment.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
With true love, you can move mountains, make unusual sacrifices, live a life of deprivations and still be happy.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.
— John Buchanan Robinson
When somebody you love dies, a phase of life's innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature.
— Richard Dawkins
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
— Leonard Bernstein
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.
— Ellen Key
Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile.
— Marcel Proust
Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.
— Isabella Rossellini
Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.
— David Sloan Wilson
Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ...
— Baruch Spinoza
Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.
— Marian Wright Edelman
We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
— Shannon L. Alder
Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods
Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Life is a mighty joke that is not meant to be funny.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The scrupulous survivors in life are the best counterweight to unscrupulous survivors.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.
— Rebecca Solnit
Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.
— John Lancaster Spalding
Having a deep sense of understanding is a huge burden for a mind that can't directly influence things.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!
— Shannon L. Alder
What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
At what point is normal natural?
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
— Ayn Rand
It is not something we often find out; but most of the specially-gifted have a deep desire to be ordinary.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction.
— Dalai Lama XIV
In today's world, human desires far supersede human needs. Waste, as you can see, is the result of that disparity.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Some honest people think it is better to know the ways of the devil without being evil.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.
— Evan Esar
Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
altruism by any other name is still altruism, fueled by many different motivations.
— Andrew E. Kaufman
Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicinehope. — Shannon L. Alder
Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A man can't talk of true happiness if he has never known true love - the trusting, selfless and unconditional love that I took for granted.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.
— Mark Twain
There are very dark times when even basic human altruism must be an intentional act of rebellion.--I Am Fire and Air — William Anthony
Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes from the soul.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The believer feels a compulsion to act far beyond basic altruism, and that defies explanation.
— Devorah Kalani
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
— Peter Breggin
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
— Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
There is a growing movement called effective altruism. It's important because it combines both the heart and the head.
— Peter Singer
Her four pupils bored into his, her white face perfectly immobile. "Altruism? What's happening to you?" "I don't know," he said.
— William Gibson
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
— Peter Watts
Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.
— Brian Tracy
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That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
— Thomas Jefferson
Idealistic as it may sound, altruism should be the driving force in business, not just competition and a desire for wealth.
— Dalai Lama XIV
A man who does not honor the company of his true friends will never see the light of true love.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The selfish and self-centered have a hard time being kind, even though you and I know that kindness is a source of relief to the soul.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
— Nicholson Baker
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.
— David Rakoff
Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.
— Mason Cooley
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
— Jane Goodall
... People who are the spices of this world are the natural souls with instincts and impulses that have not been pruned by evolution and civilization.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be.
— Simone De Beauvoir
