Altruism Quotes

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because...

She [Ayn Rand] had to declare that....altruism was despicable, that only self-interest is good and n...

"You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself."

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it ...

Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other p...

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and could never h...

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which int...

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r...

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a ...

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...

Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only m...

men, in so far as they live in obedience to reason necessarily do only such things as are necessaril...

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

We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, ...

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief i...

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

[Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, witho...

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty...

In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and t...

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

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't ex...

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get...

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and alo...

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, tha...

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to reb...

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don'...

Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don'...

For of those to whom much is given, much is required

Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have ...

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th...

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant ...

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged cla...

Compassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo or exper...

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can gi...

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directio...

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little hea...

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatur...

Human tool-makers always make tools that will help us get what we want, and what we want hasn't chan...

Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

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

I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good...

In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hard...

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....

He was always in a sort of fever because he was dropping behind schedule with his daily acts of kind...

If 10 percent of the population were to take a consciously ethical outlook on life and act according...

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our...

My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discove...

Friendship, like other kinds of altruism, is vulnerable to cheaters, and we have a special name for ...

People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous...

People who are depressed at the thought that all our motives are selfish are [confused]. They have m...

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged...

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people...

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be ...

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

And you spend your day going around from the house of the washerman to the house of the sweeper, ask...

What is nobler," she mused, turning over the photographs, "than to be a woman to whom every one turn...