Quotes About Altruism

For at every stage of your civilizations there are numbers of you who put aside selfishness and dedicate their lives in service to something they see as being greater than themselves. I say you may prevail, I say not that you will. For in each of your generations there are men who choose to serve the gods of darkness.

Law and Charity Are Not the Same

But there is also another tendency that is common among people. When they can, they wish to live and prosper at the expense of others.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

All His life long He had yearned to be giving. Now, under any circumstances, He always had something to give, ten words and a gesture; and people seemed so thankful for it. He was glad.

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

What is done out of love is beyond Good and Evil

You've won all creation. It's yours to do with it as you please- and you discover what pleases you most is doing the right thing for all creation in moment after moment.

We always tend to think we can become happier by getting what we want, even if that means we have to make someone else suffer.

I vow to save all beings ...from myself.

We think we're doing our jobs for the paycheck, but Dogen says that's an illusion. The underlying, original reason we work is to give to others. The payment you receive is a kind of karmic payback for the service you give.

Remember without self, there can be no selfless acts. Take care, nurture and challenge your self so you can expand the act of selfless action.

Live a fruitful life. Resist evil. Give more than you take. Help others do likewise. The rest will take care of itself.

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves. --Second Ideal of the Knights Radiant

You're always willing to give others more charity than you extend yourself.

For the greater good." "That has been the excuse of tyrants throughout all time.

You're meant to be helping people.

That was why he'd come back. It was about Tien, it was about Dalinar, and it was about what was right—but most of all, it was about protecting people. This was the man he wanted to be.

If we stop helping people because we're afraid, or ambivalent or whatever, then we lose. Let them do evil. I'll stop them.

XinWey's Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest amount of happiness among the greatest number of people while using the least amount of resources.