Quotes About Altruism

It's like saying to a drowning man: What a pity, what a pity! If you had only let me teach you how to swim! Everybody wants to right the world, nobody wants help his neighbor. They want to make a man of you without taking your body into consideration. It's all cockeyed.

Jesus made a number of explicit statements, injunctions really. All to the effect that one was to take no thought but to respond immediately to any appeal for aid. And to respond in large measure. To give your cloak as well as your coat, to walk two miles and not one. And as we know well, with these injunctions went another, more important one—to return good for evil. "Resist not evil!

everybody becomes a healer the moment he forgets about himself.

El amor perfecto es una especie de autodestrucción, un ausentarse de uno mismo; es una especie de muerte voluntaria en la que el amante muere para sí mismo, y para todos sus intereses, y ni siquiera piensa ni se preocupa más por ellos, y no tiene más interés que agradar y complacer al objeto de su amor.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Only that which is truly given, answered the bell-like voice. Only that good which is done for the love of doing it. Only those plans in which the welfare of others is the master thought. Only those labors in which the sacrifice is greater than the reward. Only those gifts in which the giver forgets himself.

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think." —

The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.

No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach.

Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

At a pretty young age, I wanted to do something with my life that would help people. I've been that way for quite a while.

I was a young girl the first time I learned about the concept of paying it forward.

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.

Be responsible for what you do. Don't throw trash on the highway, take care of animals, if you see someone in need you help them. That's what I want people to concentrate on instead of just grabbing everything you possibly can for yourself, which is how we're taught in this country.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

We are treated with such generosity of spirit.

Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

We are not good because of the good we do but we are good and so we do good.