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Quotes About Altruism

When an individual is cooperative and altruistic, this reduces his advantage in competition to a comparable degree with other members but increases the survival and reproduction rate of the group as a whole. In a nutshell, individual selection favors what we call sin and group selection favors virtue. The result is the internal conflict of conscience that afflicts all but psychopaths, estimated fortunately to make up only 1 to 4 percent of the population.
~ Edward O. Wilson
eusociality, the most advanced state of social behavior
~ Edward O. Wilson
S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)
~ Edward O. Wilson
Within groups selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Within groups selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals. Or, risking oversimplification, individual selection promoted sin, while group selection promoted virtue.
~ Edward O. Wilson
an iron rule exists in genetic social evolution. It is that selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, while groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals.
~ Edward O. Wilson
selfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members.
~ Edward O. Wilson
The Degree of Loving is Measured by the Degree of Giving
~ Edwin Louis Cole
* A heart that contains love, there cannot stay the hate * A heart that performances forgiveness does not recognise the revenge * A heart where resides altruism, there is no place of egoism * Such a heart demonstrates pure and real human.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A chicken benefits not from her eggs; the honeybees cannot enjoy their honey; similarly, a writer earns nothing from its writing; and visionary one receives not profit from its vision. However, the dominant figures stay to contribute a little support for the continuation of such a selfish and monopolized system.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A heart that contains love, there cannot stay the hate A heart that performances forgiveness does not recognize the revenge A heart where resides altruism, there is no place of egoism Such a heart demonstrates pure and real human.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Live not to oppress and suppress humanity; generally, it causes failure of living; conversely, live to serve humanity since such service reaches and approaches the majority of hearts and minds. Indeed, socially, it flowers the purpose of life and beautifies the character.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Living and thinking for yourself is not a remarkable life, nor valuable for humanity; it is an undeclared death of oneself. The life devoted to others creates relations and friendship, love, and unity in societies and their inhabitants to make life colourful.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Living for others is a charity of life; it is a path of sacred ones.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One has to get down in the muddy place for helping a falling person in the mud; it reflects an incredible devotion way and feeling that shower humanity with fragrance and dress the human with flowers.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The helping that stays free from its exhibition, and a show, qualifies the truth and reality as its purity; otherwise, it only alters a badge.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
True love carries sacrifices; it demands not the demands.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
heroes exterminated each other for the benefit of other people who were not heroes.
~ Eileen Townsend
Some people move through the world and make their whole existence a gift to others. As soon as I feel well enough, I aim to be one of those people.
~ Eireann Corrigan
when you put the other person's welfare foremost every day, no matter how strong the opposing tide inside, you discover after a while that you can love a little more today than you did yesterday.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Love means giving yourself to the person you love,being willing to sacrifice everything,even your pride
~ Elaine Barbieri
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
~ Elbert Hubbard
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
~ Elbert Hubbard