Altruism Quotes
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Egoism, which is the moving force of the world, and altruism, which is its morality, these two contradictory instincts, of which one is so plain and the other so mysterious, cannot serve us unless in the incomprehensible alliance of their irreconcilable antagonism.
Joseph Conrad
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Aneurin Bevan
They have done impossible things in impossible places. I think it's a great use of that altruism that is built into the Peace Corps. These are people who want to give of themselves.
James Walsh
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.
Mason Cooley
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
Richard Dawkins
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.
Jane Goodall
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
Edward Abbey
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one
Henry Louis Mencken
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King Jr
Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.
Ayn Rand
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand
