Altruism Quotes

Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out of the transforming work of Christ in us.

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

There's a lot of evidence in evolutionary sciences that show that altruism and acting in ways that are empathetic to others are actually beneficial on an evolutionary basis.

Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism - the belief that the individual exists to serve others - is translated into political reality.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.

At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill of others. Nothing more.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Infinite altruism is the basis of peace and happiness. If you want altruism, you must control hate and you must practice patience. The main teachers of patience are our enemies.

Compassion, along with love, is the face of altruism.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men...

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessarily good for human nature, and consequently for each individual man.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.

There is no bigger gratification than the realization of the things you believe in after overcoming all the odds.

He learned...never to show his anger or hatred against a stronger adversary, for fear of being crushed.

Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning.

It was one thing to be fooled, and another thing to be taken for a fool all the time.

The purpose of life is to nurture joy, which involves those aspects of humanity that enrich the soul.

At what point is normal natural?

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.

Isn’t reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?

A yesterday missed can never be found even in a fine tomorrow.

My patria vera or true fatherland is the place that enriches my soul.