Quotes About Altruism

T)his is the true core of human nature: When we've lost the strength to save ourselves, we somehow find the strength to save each other.

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

Nevertheless many a civilized man, or even boy, who never before risked his life for another, but full of courage and sympathy, has disregarded the instinct of self-preservation, and plunged at once into a torrent to save a drowning man, though a stranger. Such actions as the above appear to be the simple result of the greater strength of the social or maternal instincts rather than that of any other instinct or motive.

No human being has the right to put his own desires in front of the happiness of anyone else.

I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.

Real generosity is also showing up when you don't feel like it—sacrificing your own happiness in exchange for someone else's.

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered in the chest - without asking to be paid.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Supposedly, whatever we do that's selfish goes with us to the grave; whatever we do that's selfless lives on.

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Many of our moments of prosociality, of altruism and Good Samaritanism, are acts of restitution, attempts to counter our antisocial moments.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

If you donate to a charity and save a few kids, 20 years down the line, there will be more people who exist because of you. In other words, you should consider your actions fully.

More money gives me the chance to help more people, to give something back.

When I was a kid, I'd always tell myself if I ever grew up to have money, I'd help even more people than I do when I didn't have any money.

When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.