Quotes About Altruism

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible

The measure of a man is not how many servants he has but how many men he serves .

Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist

I killed one man to save 100,000.

The value of a man resides in what he gives

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

A man should make all he can, and give all he can.

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

Men who are ruled by reason desire nothing for themselves which they would not wish for all mankind.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.