Quotes About Altruism

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Volunteers do it for free.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

Love someone who doesn't deserve it.

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

Never look down at a person unless you're helping them up.

The beauty of life does not depends how happy you are, but how happy others can be because of you

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

Pro bono publico [For the public good].

Bis dat qui cito dat [He gives twice who gives promptly].

I still find it strange, incomprehensible, unnatural, inhuman, to devote oneself to the happiness of people whom one does not do not know; and I declare that I do not have the honor of being known to the men who govern me.

If the world is to be improved it must be by the exercise of individual charity.

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. "You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.

You know, a good is never so good as when you have no awareness that you're doing good. You are never so good as when you have no consciousness that you're good.

And here is a second quality of love—its gratuitousness.

Like Caesar, he was loyal but with this difference: he liked to do good by stealth, behind the scenes.

You're trying to tell me that everything you've done is for a good cause. You think that all this killing is worth it because of the results. I'm not sure I agree. Lots of people work for charity; lots of people want to change the world. But they don't have to behave like you.

You see the world this way because you're greedy and mad. People give to charity because they want to help.

On the one hand, they're monstrous egotists. Self-confidence, self-examination, self-hatred even … but it's all about self. All those hours on their own! And yet at the same time, they're genuinely altruistic. All they want to do is please other people. I've often thought it must demand a sort of deficiency to be a writer.

In my opinion, being able to do some form of service is a gift. The one that provides the service is the greatest beneficiary - I will attest to it.

When I talk about 'everyday communism', I am teasing a little. It is a provocative idea. But then we all do a lot of sharing a lot of the time. We don't draw up contracts for everything.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.