Quotes About Altruism

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Mankind's suffering belongs to all men.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.