Altruism Quotes - Page 9

• For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

  Henry Rollins

  New Year, Years, Height

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• Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Challenges

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Thinking, Actresses, Well Known

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Self, Community

  "Rowan Williams: no one voted for coalition policies" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. June 8, 2011.

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• In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

  E. O. Wilson

  Two, Harvard, Theory

  "Wilson says selfish people, altruistic groups win: interview". Bloomberg News Interview, www.dailyherald.com. April 17, 2012.

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• He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Beasts and Super-Beasts (1914) "The Feast of Nemesis"

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• Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

  Alfred Nobel

  Spiritual, Truth, Veils

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• The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Funny, Trust, Betrayal

  "Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong". Book by Arthur Bloch, p. 47, 1980.

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• Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those who work outside the home and those who dedicate themselves with more altruism than any profession I know to being wives and mothers, cooks and chauffeurs, and child psychologists and loving human beings.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Mother, Children, Home

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• Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

  Douglas Horton

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

  Peter Breggin

  Love You, Love Is, Selfishness

  Peter R. Breggin, M.D. (2015). “Toxic Psychiatry: Why Therapy, Empathy and Love Must Replace the Drugs, Electroshock, and Biochemical Theories of the "New Psychiatry"”, p.499, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.

  Albert Einstein

  Humorous, Men, Enemy

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Crazy, Lying, Believe

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• By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Self, Long

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• On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

  H. Allen Smith

  Monday, Morning, 4th Of July

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• I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

  Paul Newman

  Christian, Children, Thinking

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• A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Agents, Dozen, Spirit

  "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lying, Faces, Cynicism

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.88, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

  Jean Renoir

  World, Cynicism, Reason

  "Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews".

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• The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

  Douglas Horton

  Art, Giving, Cynicism

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• The simplest act of surrealism is to walk out into the street, gun in hand, and shoot at random.

  Andre Breton

  Gun, Hands, Cynicism

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• It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

  Don Watson

  Marketing, Language, Cynicism

  Don Watson (2006). “Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language”, Gotham

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• I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential sense. It seemed to me interesting to demystify these adjectives in the setting of a Western. An assassin can display a sublime altruism while a good man can kill with total indifference.

  Sergio Leone

  Men, Interesting, Sublime

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• Granted, we may try to help our own family members because they share our DNA. Or help someone else in expectation that they will help us later. But when you look at what we admire as the most generous manifestations of altruism, they are not based on kin selection or reciprocity. An extreme example might be Oskar Schindler risking his life to save more than a thousand Jews from the gas chambers. That's the opposite of saving his genes.

  Richard Dawkins

  Opposites, Dna, Expectations

  Source: inters.org

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• I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover, this behavior eventually leads to resentment. There's always a hidden agenda of What's in it for me? It's often suppressed, and this is why sacrifice is ultimately unwise and incomplete. Does this mean that there's no such thing as altruism, philanthropy, or generosity? No, it just means that anytime these exist, so do egocentricity, misanthropy, and greed. There's always a balancing force, even if it's sometimes hidden or unconscious.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Children, Mean, Sacrifice

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