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Altruism Quotes

Altruism is for thosewho can't endure their desires. There's a worldas ambiguous as a moan, a pleasure moanour earnest neighborsmight think a crime. It's where we could live. I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaidpoison every next moment. I will try to disappoint youbetter than anyone else has.--Mon Semblable Stephen Dunn
Altruism, a jargon word for what used to be called love, is worse than weakness, it is sin, a violation of nature. Be seperate. Do not be a social animal. Lewis Thomas
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. Richard Dawkins
If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect it to be part of their biological nature. Richard Dawkins
The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love. J. R. R. Tolkien
The noblest relationship is marriage, that is, love. Its nobility resides in its altruism, the desire to serve another beyond all the pleasures of the relationship; and in its refusal ever to regard the other as a thing, an object, a utilizability. Sex is an exchange of pleasures, of needs; love is a giving without return. It is this giving without return, this helping without reward, this surplus of pure good, that identifies the uniqueness of man as well as the true nature of the true... John Fowles
Richard Dawkins quote: "It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent..."
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins quote: "Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are..."
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish. Richard Dawkins
They are surprised that he did it, though, which shows you that the male mind expects very little in the way of altruism from it's fellows. Stephen King
Jane Goodall quote: "We have so far to go to realize our human potential for..."
We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love. Jane Goodall
Katherine Fullerton Gerould quote: "Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and..."
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism. Katherine Fullerton Gerould
Richard Dawkins quote: "Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are..."
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Richard Dawkins
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. E. O. Wilson
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
We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life. Deepak Chopra

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