Quotes About Altruism

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

When you come from 'love,' you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.

People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.

I have always been interested in giving back, and I wouldn't want to know a life without giving.

Whenever I see people getting a bad deal I want to step in and do something about it. Of course, this is not pure altruism - there's a profit to be made too.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson. As

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

That's what love does. It doesn't stop to consider the cost. It just...acts. Puts itself out there.

This was love. Love showed up. Love stayed. Love sacrificed.

Kindness is always motivated by something nobler than just a desire to be kind.

When I think my actions will benefit others and not just myself, I find courage where I thought I had none. Holding others in my heart brings an uplifted quality to my actions, and I feel that I am being wise.

The Bodhisattva says he will do wrong to stop wrongdoing. . . . He will kill to stop killing. As an exception. He calls it 'doing surgery, not violence.' You remove the one killer to stop many killings.

It didn't occur to me until the next morning that the boy might have burned the bread on purpose. Might have dropped the loaves into the flames, knowing it meant being punished, and then delivered them to me. But I dismissed this. It must have been an accident. Why would he have done it? He didn't even know me. Still, just throwing me the bread was an enormous kindness that would have surely resulted in a beating if discovered. I couldn't explain his actions.

As Finnick moves to take my seat before the camera, Haymitch tells him, "You don't have to do this." "Yes, I do. If it will help her." Finnick balls up his rope in his hand. "I'm ready.