Quotes About Altruism

Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.

Our message of the day is service does not need a title.

I consider everyone a hero, to be honest.

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

Christians are to love their neighbors as we love ourselves.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.

I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady... take your purse.'

Chronically insecure people easily lose their altruism, tolerance, and respect for non-conformity. If they have no alternative on offer, they can be led to attribute their plight to strangers in their midst.

Politicians should reflect on the well-documented fact that fearful, insecure people lose their sense of tolerance and altruism.

A woman will be loved...in proportion as she makes those around her happy...

You give and you give you give when you do not want to give you give you give you give when you do not want to give.

But I'm doing her a favor, letting her escape her suffering into mine.

If a woman can't help another woman in trouble, where would we be?

Talking to Daniel is like watching the news. You come away thinking the world is ending. It distorts your view of reality, which is that every day, all over the world, people are doing good things for other people and those things are never made public.

Sometimes we have to fight for other people, as well as ourselves - don't we? People we love, I mean. Otherwise why bother living? What's the point if we don't care enough for those we love to fight for them?

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

the sordid necessity of living for others."9

The myth of altruism as a motivating factor in our behavior could arise and survive only in a society bundled in the sterile gauze of New England puritanism and Protestant morality and tied together with the ribbons of Madison Avenue public relations. It is one of the classic American fairy tales. From

What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.

Being in love isn't the only way of loving. I realized with all my being that if you loved somebody- it didn't matter who it was- and dedicated yourself to bringing joy to your loved one, you, too, would be redeemed.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Give generously of what you have, and if you don't have much, give little generously.