Top Altruism Quotes

[I]t takes so little effort and money to get rid of malaria, to bring in clean water, to give people a chance at an education. When you don't have hope, that's when people start to do weird, horrible,...

The optimist sees the glass as half full, the pessimist as half empty. What I see is water that can save someone's life.

Altruism Definition

(n.) Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

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

We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.

Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves.

Kindness is love in action, not feeling emotions or thoughts of empathy only. Kindness is doing!

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

Perhaps the most legitimately dispiriting thing about reciprocal altruism is that it is a misnomer. Whereas with kin selection the "goal" of our genes is to actually help another organism, with recipr...

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

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.

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.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally...

It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their days, the types who give much artistic expression to the world,...

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.

In his 1907 retirement address, Joseph Pulitzer urged his successors to always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public w...

Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.