Altruism Quotes - Page 5

• If you don't have altruism, inner strength, inner peace, attention, then it's a trauma. It makes a difficult life for you and for others.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Inner Peace, Inner Strength, Attention

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• What [Margaret Thatcher] made a play for was the acquisitive: our greedy nature. She set aside other things like an identification with community, altruism. The only collective that she understood was: Rally around and slay the enemy.

  Hilary Mantel

  Play, Community, Enemy

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The Service without Hope
  Is tenderest, I think--
  ...
  There is no Diligence like that
  That knows not an Until

  Emily Dickinson

  Thinking, Diligence, Without Hope

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1051, Delphi Classics

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• Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

  Bill Watterson

  Littles, Cynicism, Extortion

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• The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Time

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• The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

  Garrison Keillor

  Color, Numbers, Green

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• I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.

  Matthew Scully

  Eye, Sight, Names

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• The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.

  Douglas Horton

  Keys, Heaven, Cynicism

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• Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

  Douglas Horton

  Cooperation, Cynicism, Teach

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• Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Race, History

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.454, e-artnow

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• Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

  Douglas Horton

  Movie, Hero, Actors

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• You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Funny, Witty, Rude

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.38, Bantam

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• Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

  Douglas Horton

  Lying, Giving, Buying

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• A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

  Gore Vidal

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Cynicism

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 08, 2011

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• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Leadership, Inspiration

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

  Richard Branson

  People, Want, Steps

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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• Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Motivational, Hilarious

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Character, Balance, Trying

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.195, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace, and however we try to seek it: creativity, justice, altruism, striving, completion of a plan or a piece of work.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Creativity, Buddhism, Names

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• Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Self, Guilt

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• [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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• Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to think that morality is an attribute only of religion. We can imagine two types of spirituality: one tied to religion, while the other arises spontaneously in the human heart as an expression of love for our neighbors and a desire to do them good.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Mistake, Believe

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• Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

  David Riesman

  Men, Culture, Debt

  David Riesman (1966). “Individualism Reconsidered, and Other Essays”

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• There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

  Scott Adams

  Criticism, Lines, Cynicism

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.440, Penguin

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• We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Rebel, Machines

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1976.

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