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The boundaries of altruism are not even limited to an infinite sum of currency.

Jackie A. Strange

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

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

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

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

Richard Dawkins

Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

Peter Birks

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Edward Abbey

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

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

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Ayn Rand

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

Christina Stead

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.

GINA MARANTO

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

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

Human altruism is thought to be based, in part, on empathy. To be empathetic, you need to understand the thoughts and desires of others.

Joan Silk

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

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

John Buchanan Robinson

Very usually, altruism is only the sublimest form of selfishness.

Sri Aurobindo

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

Jane Goodall

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

Gregory Dale Bear

Objectivism comes on, sometimes, as if the most important issue you have to understand is the issue of egoism versus altruism. But thats nowhere near the beginning of the process.

Nathaniel Branden