Altruism famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Altruism is the root of all Wickedness
-- Andrew Ryan

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There's no such thing as altruism.
-- Andrew Tobias

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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
-- Collis Potter Huntington

#Cynicism #Altruism
Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.
-- David Rakoff

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Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.
-- Douglas Horton

#Cynicism #Teach #Altruism
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick

#Spring #Persons #Altruism
Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.
-- Nicholson Baker

#Wikipedia #Shrines #Altruism
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
-- Samantha Power

#Country #Altruism
It always amused me that there were people working for the good of altruism but also wanting a lot of credit for it. It's just oddly competitive and the environment and the people who decide to work at non-profits are just really funny to me.
-- Issa Rae

#People #Environment #Altruism

I have the normal desire, experienced by everybody who's ever flown an airplane with a certain amount of zoom capability, to go a little bit higher and a little bit faster.
We are many, but are we much?
Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.
And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I'm right or wrong. And down the waterfall where ever it may take me I know that life won't break me When I come to call, she won't forsake me I'm loving angels instead.
The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don't neglect Him. We are not here to do work for God, we are here to be workers with Him, those through whom He can do His work.
Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.
Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species...
In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.