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Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it. — Richard Dawkins

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda. — Tsem Tulku

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government. — Michael Mandelbaum

Control Master Theory proposes that most psychological problems are the result of our altruistic impulses run amok. — Lewis Engel

Great compassion is the root of altruistic action, the object of amazement to the world;there is no greater source of help and happiness. — Dalai Lama XIV

The West is anything but altruistic. — Paul Kagame

The most altruistic man is the most selfish. — Abraham Lincoln

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.' — Dian Fossey

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

To forgive is not just to be altruistic. — Desmond Tutu

The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives - altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. — Richard J. Foster

If you're lucky enough to live without want, it's a natural impulse to be altruistic to others. — Moutasem Algharati

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. — Arundhati Roy

If you are not selfish you will not be altruistic, remember. — Osho

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior. — Ted Malloch

Our altruistic mind is the key to our happiness as individuals, families, nations, and as an international community. — Dalai Lama XIV

Being altruistic not only helps us to benefit others, but it is also the most satisfying way to live. — Matthieu Ricard

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance
— Robert A. Heinlein

Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it. — Nicholas Kristof

I wasn't exactly sure that getting someone a job as a porn star was completely altruistic. But maybe I was being judgemental. — Marshall Thornton

'The Portrait of Dorian Grey' beautifully articulates how the altruistic part of ourselves clashes with our essentially narcissistic state. — Walton Goggins

The happiest among us will be most altruistic, most distinct, most benevolent and most awkward to some of us in a way. — RKSJ

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires — Bertrand Russell

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. — Ingrid Newkirk

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic. — Gary Chapman

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary. — David Sloan Wilson

Spiritual awakening is exactly dropping the sense of one's narrow separateness; it is essentially and profoundly altruistic. — Norman Fischer

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".

~R. Alan Woods [2012] — R. Alan Woods

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve. — George Bernard Shaw

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. — Richard Dawkins