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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
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
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
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
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
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
